Elma Lorene "Reenie" Biles was born to Roy Wesley and Bessie May Biles on October 28, 1927 in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Brothers Gene, Ed and Hobert and sisters, Goldie and Ruth completed the Biles family of eight.
Lorene was twelve years old when she lost her mother. She quit school to stay home to take care of her youngest sister who was two at the time. When her sister turned six and started to school Lorene went back and finished the eighth grade and graduated. Lorene met Dewayne Estep and they married in March 1946. Dewayne farmed for a living and he and Lorene struggled to make ends meet. In 1948 they moved to Rangely, Colorado, where Dewayne and his brother worked in oil fields. In 1950 they moved back to Texas where Dewayne worked in farming until 1960. Then they moved to Colorado and farmed for four years. In 1964 the family moved back to Texas. In 1965 Dewayne and Lorene were divorced. While married they were blessed with six children: Hobert "Bobby" Dewayne, Johnnie Lee, Radford "Rad" Lynn, Hallie Elaine, Raymond Hoyt and Patricia "Patty" Ellen. In 1965 Lorene moved to Baca County, Colorado with her children. In May of 1967 Lorene married Doyle McEndree and lived in Two Buttes. They divorced in 1981. Over the next few years Lorene lived in the Springfield, Walsh and Elkhart areas. She worked at cleaning houses baby-sitting and in the dietary departments of hospitals. In 1983 she moved to Johnson, Kansas, where she did day care, cleaned businesses and houses, and worked at other odd jobs. In 2001 she moved into the Stanton County Long Term Care Center. On January 15, 2014, she transferred to the Long Term Care Center in Springfield. She passed away on February 4, 2014.
Lorene is survived by four sons; Hobert (Evelyn) Estep of Johnson, Kansas, Johnnie (Cherry) Estep of Wichita Falls, Texas, Radford (Brenda) Estep of Cheyenne Wells, Colorado and Hoyt (Jodell) Estep of Hobbs, New Mexico; two daughters, Elaine (Mike) Barber of Garden City, Kansas, and Patty (Darrel) Caddick of Springfield. She is also survived by one sister, Ruth (Bill) Wimberly of Denton, Texas; nineteen grandchildren, thirty-seven great-grandchildren and six great, great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, one sister, two grandsons and two great-grandsons.