Lorene C. Buettner

Lorene Catherine (Bellinghausen) Buettner, age 94, longtime resident of Edmond, passed away on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, in Edmond, Oklahoma. Lorene was born September 27, 1928 in Ponca City, Oklahoma, the third of seven children, to Louis Leonard and Martha Susan (Schiltz) Bellinghausen. She grew up on the family farm in Ponca City and graduated from St. Mary’s High School. She received an Associate Degree from Oklahoma A&M, which later became Oklahoma State University. While at A& M, She met Emil F. Buettner, an Okarche native. They married in 1948.

Lorene held a variety of clerical and paralegal positions at several Oklahoma City law firms while raising five children. She worked until her retirement from McAfee & Taft in 1988. She had a passion for guiding youth, working many years with Girl Scouts, Boy Scouts and Catholic youth groups. She was an avid traveler throughout her life, including many years with Friendship Force and church pilgrimage groups.

She is survived by her children: Diane Buettner (Mary Anne Bower), Ken Buettner (Barb), Vicki Ratke (Larry), Deb Jensen (Dave), Jan Foisy (Steve), and siblings, Patricia Jean Kastanek, Robert Peter (“Bob”) Bellinghausen, her 6 grandchildren, 6 great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.

She is preceded in death by her parents, brothers Louis Raymond Bellinghausen and James Michael Bellinghausen, sisters Elizabeth Ann (“Betty”) Brown and Mary Catherine Kirkpatrick and many other close relatives. The family would like to give special thanks to Bobbie Nubine and the Mercy Hospice team for the extraordinary love, care and support given in her final time. In lieu of flowers, memorial donations may be made to St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, Memo: Emil F. Buettner Scholarship Fund, Edmond, Ok, PO Box 510, Edmond, OK 73083.

Come-and-go visitation will be held at Baggerley Funeral Home on Wednesday, May 10 from 9 AM until 6 PM with a Wake Service at 6:30 PM in the Baggerley Chapel. The funeral service will be held on Thursday, May 11, 2023 at 1 PM at St John the Baptist Catholic Church, 900 S. Littler Avenue, Edmond, OK 73034 with burial to follow to Resurrection Cemetery in Oklahoma City, OK. The funeral mass will be live streamed and you will be able to view it on Lorene’s tribute page on the Baggerley Funeral Home website.

Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.baggerley.com for the Buettner family.