Obituary
Letitia Cemetery, Comanche County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:
Tom Sweeney
© The Lawton Constitution
Lawton, Oklahoma Thursday, October 20, 2011 Funeral for Audrey B. Milburn, 93, Lawton, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Bethel Methodist Church, east of Lawton, with the Rev. Leonard Reimer, of Promise Care Hospice, officiating. Mrs. Milburn passed away Tuesday, Oct. 18, 2011, in Lawton. Burial will be at Letitia Cemetery under direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home. Audrey was born Dec. 29, 1917, west of Marlow, to Millard Filmore and Sallie Belle [Roberts] McGee. She attended Prairie Center Elementary and graduated from Central High School, Marlow in 1935. She grew up in a time of the depression when women could not vote. She married Edgar Milburn on June 18, 1941, in Addington. She was a homemaker and later worked as a lab technician at Southwestern Hospital for 15 years before retiring in 1983. She was a member of the Bethel Methodist Church East of Lawton. She loved to sew and cook and enjoying raising a garden. She is survived by three children: Kaye Miller, of Lawton; Darryl Milburn and his wife, Merea, of North Canton, Ohio; and Nancy Schlehuber, of Moore; eight-grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren with one on the way; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her husband, Edgar Milburn; her parents; and nine brothers and sisters. An online guest book and sympathy cards are available at GrayFuneral.com. |