OAB Board Members

Alfalfa, Beaver, Blaine, Cimarron, Custer, Dewey, Ellis, Garfield Grant, Harper, Kingfisher, Major, Roger Mills, Texas, Woods, and Woodward Counties

Jeff Mapes serves as president of Woods County Abstract Corporation in Alva, Oklahoma.  Jeff graduated from Oklahoma State University with a chemical engineering degree in 1987.  He has had very diverse career experiences, having served in the Oklahoma Army National Guard for thirty years and as a chemical engineer at Dow Chemical for several years.  During his career at Woods County Abstract, he has served on the Oklahoma Land Title Association board and is an American Land Title Association member.  He enjoys working alongside his wife, Michelle, and father-in-law Carl, daily.  Jeff and Michelle have two daughters, Courtney and Cathy.  He currently resides in Alva, where he is regularly active in both community and church.  Outside of the abstract office, Jeff enjoys farming and ranching in Northwest Oklahoma.

Beckham, Caddo, Carter, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Greer, Harmon, Jackson, Jefferson, Kiowa, Love, McClain, Murray, Stephens, Tillman  and Washita Counties

Darla Ringo was born and raised in Sayre, Oklahoma, and was raised in the Beckham County Abstract office. She started working officially when she was 15 years old and worked at Sayre until she graduated from Sayre High School. Upon graduation, she transferred to Cordell and started working at Washita County Abstract in 1982. She has been at Washita County ever since and now manages Cordell Abstract.  She is married to Jeff Ringo and they have one son, Max, and their daughter-in-law McKenzie, and granddaughter Kennedy. 

Canadian, Cleveland, Logan, and Oklahoma Counties

Jason Waldroup has been employed by First American Title Insurance Company, formerly Southwest Title and Trust Company, for 37 years.  He has worked in the Abstracting Department, Title Insurance Department and is currently the Title Operations Manager for Central Oklahoma.

Adair, Cherokee, Craig, Delaware, Kay, Mayes, Muskogee, Noble, Nowata, Okmulgee, Osage, Ottawa, Pawnee, Payne Sequoyah, Washingon

Rex is employed with Smith Brothers Abstract.  He has worked as an abstractor for over 35 years in several different counties.  He grew up in Denver, Colorado, and moved to Oklahoma after high school to attend college.  He graduated from Oklahoma Wesleyan University with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Leadership in Business Administration and Management.  He lives in rural Osage County with his wife, Hillary, and they have three grown children.

Creek, Lincoln, Rogers, Tulsa, and Wagoner Counties

Michael Cantrell is Manager of Wagoner County Abstract Company, LLC in Wagoner, Oklahoma.  Michael graduated from Northeastern State University with a Bachelors degree in Business Administration in 2003.  He has been with Wagoner County Abstract since 1997 and has done every job in the office.  Michael has served on the Oklahoma Land Title Association board in many positions including President in 2017-2018 and is a member of the American Land Title Association where he has served on the Native American Lands workgroup. Michael and his wife Amy have two children, Jacob and Liz.  In his free time, Michael likes traveling with Amy, working in his backyard and collecting vintage vinyl records and listening to them on his vintage stereo.

Atoka, Bryan, Choctaw, Coal, Haskell, Hughes, Johnston, Latimer, Leflore, McIntosh, Marshall, McCurtain, Okfuskee, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pottawatomie, Pushmataha and Seminole

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Jeff graduated from The University of Tulsa College of Law in 1986 and has emphasized his law practice in the area of real estate and title examinations. He is a member of the OBA Real Estate Section and the Tulsa Title and Probate Lawyers. 

Beryl Sears has the Accredited Land Consultant designation from the Realtors Land Institute and is the Branch Broker of our Oklahoma office.  With a Bachelor's degree from Southeastern Oklahoma State University and a MBA from Oklahoma State University, he is very knowledgeable and skilled in listing and selling farms and ranches in Oklahoma.

Being a sixth generation Chickasaw in the area, Beryl knows the land of southeast Oklahoma.  Growing up on a peanut farm and cattle ranch, he has continued operating and owning land that has been in his family since 1901.  Currently Beryl is Vice-chairman for the Texoma Board of Realtors, Chairman of the TBOR Education Committee, an active member of the Realtors Land Institute, and a member of the Greater Texoma Association of Realtors, Oklahoma Association of Realtors, Texas Association of Realtors, and of the National Association of Realtors.  He also serves as Chairman of the Bryan County Natural Resources Conservation Committee and has served on the board of the Bryan County Farm Services Agency.

An Oklahoma native, Turner-Arndt grew up in the Freedom area in Woods County. She began her banking career as an examiner for Farm Credit Administration in Denver, CO, before returning to Northwest Oklahoma to work at an Enid area community bank. Turner-Arndt has 15 years of experience in the financial industry, specializing in commercial and agricultural lending. She joined Gateway First Bank in 2022 as the Vice President of Commercial Relationships and Portfolio Manager at the Cherokee, OK, banking center.

Turner-Arndt serves as the Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Great Salt Plains Community Health Center and serves on the Oklahoma Bankers Association’s Government Relations Council. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in agribusiness/finance from Oklahoma State University and later earned her graduate degree from the Graduate School of Banking in Colorado.

Previous to coming to the Abstractors Board, Katherine managed the Oklahoma Land Title Association from 2008 to 2015. Previous to that, she was involved in commercial real estate, overseeing operations in Oklahoma and Arkansas for a division of Trammell Crow Company. Except for a minor detour of 4 years in Colorado, she is a life-long resident of Oklahoma and currently resides in Oklahoma City.

In her spare time, she writes fiction novels and enjoys spending time with her three granddaughters.