Rita Frayser

Frayser Rita Helen Richardson Frayser went home to God on Tuesday July 16, 2024, a month shy of 77 years here with us. Born in Abilene, Texas to T.C. And Beulah King Richardson, she started school in Snyder, Texas. She had fond memories of Snyder, Courtney, and Big Spring, Texas schools. Rita earned an Associate of Arts at Howard County Junior College in Big Spring, a Bachelor of Arts in English and a Master of Arts in English Education at the University of Texas at Austin, and was awarded a graduate fellowship in English for the Disadvantaged. She married Clark Frayser in South Dakota and moved with him to Oklahoma, where she lived the rest of her life. Rita taught at Bluejacket and Commerce, Oklahoma schools and helped edit and prepare the Eastern Shawnee play “The Panther and the Swan” before beginning a career as a Social Worker with the Department of Human Services, from which she retired in 2002 after also helping to conduct workshops for coworkers and local hospital staff on heat and cold stress and on areas covered by state medical assistance.