Flora Louisa Waldie

Today we celebrate the life of Flora Waldie, born Flora Louisa Hauser in Blaine County, Oklahoma on February 8, 1938. She spent her childhood on her family’s farm in Hitchcock learning to cook and garden with her mom and grandma while her dad and three brothers worked their wheat fields.

Flora graduated from Okeene High School in 1956 and went on to Oklahoma State University (OSU) where she earned a home economics degree. She participated in the Independent Student Association Council and the Methodist student organization Kappa Phi. She worked in the dorm cafeteria, where she met the love of her life, Kenneth Waldie. He invited her to an employee lakeside picnic and their lifelong romance began.

Flora and Kenneth married June 1st, 1959 in Stillwater. After graduation, Flora worked as a Home Economics school teacher in Mulhall, Oklahoma while Kenneth’s education was interrupted to serve active duty in the U.S. Air Force as an airplane mechanic during the Vietnam War. When he returned and finished his engineering degree, they moved to Broken Arrow, Oklahoma where they welcomed two sons, Kendall and Jeffrey. For a brief time they moved to Kansas, until Flora determined she wasn’t a fan of the harsh Kansas winters. They then relocated to DeSoto, Texas, where the extended growing season allowed her to garden to her heart’s delight. They also began attending the First United Methodist Church of DeSoto.

As the boys grew, Flora enjoyed supporting them in their Boy Scout and marching band activities. As a skilled seamstress, she sewed on patches and buttons, hemmed and repaired the boys’ pants, and created beautiful clothes for her family, including matching clothing sets for a niece and her Barbie dolls. She later began working at Cloth World to pay for her sons’ college educations. She was promoted to Assistant Manager before she retired to focus on her grandchildren, church, gardening, and sewing. She loved making family gifts in retirement, including pillows and blankets, custom baby doll clothes and accessories, quirky stuffed animals, and useful household items she donated to church fundraisers.

Passing on her knowledge, skills and insights to her children and grandchildren was one of her life’s joys. We will miss receiving the many letters, pictures and newspaper articles she so lovingly selected for each of us and mailed.

Flora is preceded in death by her parents Victor Theodore Hauser and Helen Leverne Carter Hauser, and her brother Louis Donald “Donnie” Hauser. She is survived by her husband of 66 years Kenneth LeRoy Waldie, her brothers Victor “LaVern” Hauser and Willis Dwaine Hauser, her sons Kendall Ray Waldie and wife Christine, and Jeffrey Lynn Waldie and wife Susan, and her grandchildren: Catherine Waldie, Robin Waldie Wilson and husband Eli, Elizabeth Waldie, Ailish Reyes, Joshua Waldie, Harvey Regin, Caleb Waldie, Conlan Reyes and Carolyn Waldie.

The family will receive friends at First United Methodist Church, 310 Roaring Springs Dr., DeSoto, TX on Thursday - September 25, 2025 from 11:00 A.M. until 12:Noon at which time the Funeral Service will begin (same day) with Rev. Tim Marks, officiating. Interment will follow in the Dallas/Ft. Worth National Cemetery, Dallas, TX. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials or donations be made in Mrs. Waldie's name to a charity of choice.