Marilyn Geleen Winfrey

Marilyn Geleen (Greiner) Winfrey, 73 Campbellsville, Kentucky. Departed this life at Hillcrest Hospital South, December 2, 2021. She was born in Pasadena, California on April 23, 1948. She was preceded in death by her father, Rev. Eugene George Greiner. She grew up in Colorado as the daughter of a Nazarene preacher. As a result, there is a long list of people who love her. She graduated from Englewood High School, Englewood, Colorado. She attended Southern Nazarene University, Bethany, Oklahoma, where she met the love of her life on a blind date on Friday the 13th of January, 1967. Jim and Marilyn transferred to The University of Central Oklahoma because it was so expensive at a private school. Marilyn eventually forfeited her education, so her husband could get out sooner. Being a pastor’s child, she didn’t have much money, so she made everything she wore. She made her wedding dress and some of the bride’s maid’s dresses. She also made her children’s clothes. One year she brought a bunch of sewing machines to church and taught the girls to make their choir tour dresses. She and her husband served full time in 6 states and ten different churches. People would say they got two for the price of one, because they were a team. They would also say that they treated the young people as if they were their own. Before being called into the ministry, Jim was a music teacher in Okemah, Oklahoma, and Marilyn would go to the school every day to play for Jim’s high school mixed chorus. When people saw pictures of Marilyn on Facebook, they noticed her smile. In high school or college, the kids called her Grinner. She was a loving, compassionate person. In Jim and Marilyn's first position, she fed homeless people who would come to the house. One time as a child, during an altar service, she went to an old Swede and asked him if he didn’t want to go to the altar. For 11 years Jim and Marilyn served under the same pastor, and he would give Marilyn the eye when he wanted her to work with someone at the altar. In these last years, Marilyn loved the role of being a grandmother. She had five grandchildren, and she loved them all equally. Her oldest is a “mini me”. She gave her Jim’s mother’s old treadle sewing machine and gave her an electric sewing machine, and was teaching her to sew. She loved going to their concerts, recitals, birthday parties, karate lessons, soccer games, baseball games, and basketball games. She set up a family vacation every year. Family meant a lot to her. Marilyn is survived by her mother, Kathleen (McAnally) Greiner, loving husband, Rev. Jim Winfrey, a son, Jimmy Lee Winfrey (Melanie), a daughter, Marilee Budai (Dr. Bill), and 5 beautiful grandchildren; Bradon Winfrey, Kaylee Winfrey, Annalynn Budai, Brenden Budai, Gideon Budai. She will be deeply missed by scores of people. Her funeral service will be 1:00 pm, Wednesday, December 8, 2021 at the Collinsville Church of the Nazarene, 1118 West Broadway, Collinsville, OK 74021. Interment will be at Ridgelawn Cemetery, 14476 N 104th E Ave, Collinsville, OK 74021 Arrangements are with Collinsville Dolton Funeral Home, Collinsville, Oklahoma. Clergy are Rev. David Young, pastor Campbellsville Church of the Nazarene, Campbellsville, KY and Rev. Tim Odom, pastor of Collinsville Church of the Nazarene, Collinsville, OK. In lieu of flowers, donations in Marilyn's name can be made to the Nazarene Church.