Jerell Dean Baggs

Visitation at Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home Chapel, Friday, November 7, 2025. The family will receive friends from 5-7:00 p.m.

Jerell Dean (Stapp) Baggs was born to Buford Lee and Mervell Lucille (Powell) Stapp on December 16, 1942 at Walters, OK and departed this life in Lawton, OK on October 28, 2025 at the age of 82 years, 10 months and 12 days.

Dean grew up in the Walters area. She married Donald Lee Baggs on June 13, 1959 in Cookietown, OK and to the union 3 children were born. They made their home near his parents north of Cookietown for a year before moving to a farm south of Cookietown and where they are still in the same house, but the home was moved a quarter mile east during the building of the turnpike. Along with custom harvesting, she worked at Haggar’s for 20 years, and worked as a guard at James Allred Prison in Wichita Falls for 5 years.

Dean had been a member of Union Valley Baptist Church and currently of Randlett Baptist Church. She loved her pecan trees and received recognition from the state of Oklahoma for a new variety of pecan. She loved hummingbirds and enjoyed doing bird identification and hatching chicks with the grandkids. She raised chickens, turkeys, and guineas, and had grasshopper hunts with the family to feed her chickens. She was a dead-eye for shooting snakes and enjoyed fishing.

Dean was preceded in death by her parents, Buford and Mervell Stapp; 2 brothers, Lee Roy Stapp and Claud Stapp; and 2 sisters, Ruth Stapp Nix and Linda “Sissy” Stapp.

Survivors include a daughter, Donna Brown and James of Burkburnett, TX; 2 sons, Darryl Baggs and Callie of Randlett, OK and David Baggs and Tami of Walters; a brother, William Lee Stapp of Lawton; a sister, Edith Stapp Kitchen of Walters; 9 grandchildren and spouses, Amy and Chad Muir, Kristen and Ty Kowalewski, Staci and Corey Wade, Dustin and Jacie Baggs, Darby and Cooper Huffstutler, Delmar and Sasha Harris, Cecil and Mariah Baggs, Ashtyn and Dustin Smith, And Riley Baggs; 12 great grandchildren, Madison, Jacob, Bailey, Matthew, Ryan, Drew, Raycee, Kinley, Brantley, Reagan, Bradlee and Wyatt; many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.