Funeral Services for Ashley Grybowski, 21, Arapaho resident will be held 1:00 P.M., Monday, March 8, 2021 in the Weatherford First Baptist Church, officiated by Doyle Kinney and Allison Kendall. Burial will follow in the Clinton Cemetery under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home.
Ashley Kay Grybowski was born March 12, 1999 to Brett Allen Grybowski and Lisa Michelle (Elston) Grybowski in Clinton, OK and passed away Monday, March 1, 2021 at home in her Dad’s loving arms after losing a courageous battle with Cancer.
Ashley was raised in Arapaho. She has attended Arapaho Schools and graduated Salutatorian of her 2017 Graduating Class. She was active in high school basketball, FCA, FFA and was on the Academic Team and achieved several honors. She also danced at Cinderella’s Dance Studio in Elk City for 11 years. She continued her education at Oklahoma Southwestern State University in Weatherford and Graduated this spring with a degree in Elementary Education.
She was employed with Southwestern Oklahoma State University as assistant in Dean Kinder’s Office; and was substitute teaching at Arapaho-Butler Schools. She was a member of Sigma Sigma Chi Sorority, Kappa Delta Pi, Gamma Delta Kappa and was a Student Government Senator at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. She was also actively involved in Weatherford FBC University.
Ashley enjoyed many other things including traveling, concerts, shopping and most of all being with her family and friends; she especially enjoyed watching her sister cheer and her brother trap shoot.
She is preceded in death by her paternal grandmother, Nancy Grybowski; maternal greatgrandparents, Paul and Frances Arington and Johnny and Vera Elston and paternal great-grandmother, Hazel Grybowski and paternal great-grandparents Charlie and Maurita Carder.
She is survived by her parents, Brett and Lisa Grybowski, sister, Kinley Grybowski; all of the home; brother, Corbin Grybowski, Woodward.
She is also survived by maternal grandparents, Danny and Linda Elston, Arapaho, OK; Richard and Merle Grybowski, Honolulu, Hawaii; two cousins, Lauren Zirtzman and husband, Andy, Yukon, OK and Kiley Grybowski, Elk City, OK; and uncle Bobby Elston, Nashville, Georgia.
In lieu of flowers the family has requested those wanting to give a memorial contribution may do so to the Ashley Grybowski Scholarship Fund that has been set up at Clinton Interbank, 807 Gary Boulevard, Clinton, OK 73601.