Nina Blair
Nina Marie Blair was born March 3, 1960, on the U.S. Naval Base in Long Beach, Calif.
Appropriately, she had a lifelong love for the number three. She passed away at her home in Kingfisher on Sept. 17, 2021.
Mom was a passionate, devout Christian woman who knew the Bible back to front. She taught her children to love the Lord and trust in His providence and Guardian Angels.
She is at peace now with the Lord, her mother and baby son, Lane.
She was the most generous person one could ever meet and would give anyone the clothes off her own back and sometimes actually did.
She made a positive impact on everyone she met. She was genuinely interested in the well-being and happiness of others.
She was the kind of person who would try to get the waiter or waitress to sit at the table with us at a restaurant and eat, and they sometimes did.
She taught her children to treat strangers with care and concern and to remember, “You never know what it takes for someone to get out of the bed in the morning” and that “We never know when we are entertaining angels unaware.”
She grew up in a military family. They loved each other very much and stuck together through it all.
They were also a motocross family and mom loved watching her big brother and daddy race.
Her daddy was her hero. Her mother meant the world to her.
She looked up to and had tremendous respect for her big brother and her little brother was one of her best friends and most loved persons on Earth.
She always took very good care of her little brother and had a special place in her heart for him. The three siblings shared a mighty, everlasting bond.
An Air Force “brat” growing up, Nina attended over a dozen different schools in Okinawa (Japan), Florida, Arizona, Texas, California and Oklahoma, where she graduated from Kingfisher High School in 1978.
She attended the University of Oklahoma and the University of Central Oklahoma (then known as Central State University), where she studied journalism and mass communication.
Nina met Kent Blair at Kingfisher High School and the two fell in love and eventually wed on Jan. 3, 1980. They were married for nearly 20 years.
Together, they had three children, Lisa, Lane and David.
She spent her time taking care of her babies. She hardly missed an event her children participated in for over 30 years, sometimes driving or flying across the country.
She was unrelentingly supportive and encouraging.
Our mom was a tireless worker. She was meticulous and detail-oriented.
She had a powerful mind and a memory like an elephant. She had a fantastic, witty sense of humor and believed in the joy of all things.
One day, she hoped to write something of an autobiography, which she planned on titling Random Thoughts, Randomly.
Nina always worked, beginning with babysitting as a young girl; she later worked at Streets clothing boutique in Northpark Mall during college; and owned and operated a local oil and natural gas corporation for over 20 years.
She was an active member of the Republican party.
She was involved in Mother’s Club and countless activities and organizations within the Kingfisher Church of the Nazarene.
She appreciated greatness in government, art, music and literature and was a wealth of knowledge.
She was an autodidact and studied the classics. She especially loved music and believed in its power.
She often said that God forbid she ever had to choose between becoming deaf or blind; she would choose to lose her sight so she could still hear music.
She instilled her love of music in her children and made sure we were instructed in how to play at least one instrument.
To that end, she spent countless hours over 13 years sitting and waiting outside of our piano lessons, amongst the many other activities she ensured we participated in.
She also loved reading and writing in her journals. She enjoyed word games, crossword puzzles and relished opportunities to play cards, particularly Crazy 8’s, for which she kept detailed logs of scores against her friends and family.
She was a fierce competitor and had a talent (and love) for arguing. She loved to travel and dreamed of one day moving to Coos Bay, Ore., to be near its beautiful coast, sunrises and sunsets and many lighthouses.
Mom deeply loved her family and friends. Her level of compassion and generosity was inspiring.
She took care of all of us and we will miss her dearly. Her grandbabies were robbed of a tremendous granny. She was preceded in
She was preceded in death by her mother, Reba K. Briscoe, and her son, Lane Michael Blair.
She is survived by her father, Randy Briscoe and his wife Jamie Briscoe; her big brother George Briscoe and his wife Karla Briscoe; her little brother Randy Briscoe; her daughter Lisa Black and her husband Zac Black; her son David Blair and his wife Olivia Blair; and her grandchildren, Sophia, Theodore, Eleanor and Elizabeth.
Memorial donations may be made in her name to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
Services for Nina will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, at Church of the Nazarene in Kingfisher with interment following at Kingfisher Cemetery.