Sara Leann Breckenridge was born November 26th, 1945, at the Cimarron Valley Wesley Hospital in Guthrie, OK to John David & Alice Erma Lee Gray-Breckenridge. Sara’s family lived & moved all around the Anadarko Oil Basin as J.D. worked the rigs around Chickasha, Anadarko & Pauls Valley.
Around 1957, the family permanently moved to “the farm” on Penn north of Highway 33. Sara attended Guthrie Public Schools from that point on, eventually graduating from the building that is now Guthrie Junior High School on Oklahoma Ave.
After high school, Sara attended the University of Science & Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha when it was still known as The Oklahoma College for Women. While in Chickasha, Sara attended a school dance where she met a G.I. from Fort Sill, Floyd Victor Raupe of Granbury, TX.
On December 17th, 1966, Vic & Sara were married in the Chapel at First Southern Baptist Church in Guthrie, OK. On December 27th, 1969, after Vic had served his country as a pilot in the Vietnam War, they welcomed their one & only child, a daughter Catherine Melynn. Vic, Sara & Melynn made their home in and around the Granbury, TX area, before relocating back to Guthrie in the early 1980’s.
Sara worked at the Benham Group in Oklahoma City, OK. Later, Vic & Sara owned & operated a full-service gas station & service center on the corner of Wentz & Cleveland and a bookstore at 124 N 2nd St both of which ended up combining leading to Vic’s Place, a retail & mail-order business that specialized in service station memorabilia. Sara & Vic and their beloved Chocolate Lab Molly, traveled the United States in a motorhome & trailer, passing out catalogs and selling their merchandise from California to Pennsylvania. In 2003, Sara & Vic sold Vic’s Place to their daughter & son-in-law and settled into “semiretirement”.
Sara had many loves in her life: reading, interior decorating with pewter ware & farmhouse furniture, piddling in her yard, bingewatching Law & Order episodes & volunteering among other passions. However, the job she relished the most was helping raise her four grandchildren. She used to joke that she only had to go through labor & delivery ONCE and ended up with SIX kids to love & care for.
Quietly, & without fanfare, Sara touched the lives of countless people in our community. She was a Court-Appointed Special Advocate for children in the foster care system, she founded & taught a Sunday School Class for developmentally disabled adults simply called “The Friends Class”. She tutored children in reading through the YMCA & the Guthrie Public Library until her illness wouldn’t cooperate any longer. She would randomly drop checks off with school librarians to help purchase new reading material for the kids in Guthrie Public Schools. She delivered mobile meals to the elderly & less fortunate.
Sara was a true & humble servant and through her own, personal relationship with Jesus Christ, she has taken up residence in her Heavenly Home immediately after her passing on June 29th, 2022, in the arms of her husband and daughter, at Iris Memory Care in Edmond, OK.
Sara was preceded in death by her parents, JD & Erma Lee, and by her precious sisters Lana Ham & Dena Montgomery.
She is survived by her husband Vic of Guthrie, her daughter & son-in-law Melynn & Seth Robbins of Guthrie, her grandchildren Cort Lynn Robbins & Jaxon Vanya of Winnie, TX, Sara Ryan & Corbin Crockett of Guthrie, Benjamin Bo Victor Robbins of Oklahoma City and Alex Owen Robbins of Guthrie.
She is also survived by two beautiful, greatgranddaughters Palmer Lou & Jones Birdie Crockett of Guthrie, a cousin (who became a sister) Cheryl Eubanks and her husband Larry of Guthrie, her beloved nieces & nephews Lori, Emily, Jamie, Jennifer, Josh, Chesney, Heather, Nicholas, Michael & Steven, brothers-in-law Loy & Loren Raupe of Texas, Jimmy Ham & Wayne Montgomery of Guthrie, a sister-in-law Candace Borja & her husband Francisco of Florida and many other great-nieces & great-nephews, cousins and other family too numerous to list.
In lieu of flowers, the family encourages all who feel led to donate to The Guthrie Educational Foundation with a memo of Sara L. Raupe Memorial Library Donation. We do this in the spirit of carrying on her legacy of encouraging reading for pleasure. Donations can be mailed to or dropped off at the Guthrie Public Schools Administration 802 E. Vilas Ave Guthrie, OK 73044. Graveside funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M., Wednesday, July 6, 2022 at Summit View Cemetery with Seth Robbins officiating. Services are under the direction of Smith-Gallo Funeral Home, 220 North 1st St., Guthrie, OK 73044. Friends may sign the online guestbook at www.smithgallo.com.