Funeral service for Matilda Susan Dittner, 88, who died at Pleasant Manor, Sapulpa, Oklahoma, on Saturday, June 15th, 2002 was held Tuesday, June 18th, 2002 at 2:30 p.m. in Lanman Funeral Home Chapel in Helena, Oklahoma. Rev. Charles Sappington officiated. Burial followed at Karoma Cemetery near Goltry, Oklahoma. Memorials may be made to St. Francis Hospice through Lanman Funeral Home. Matilda was born February 26th, 1914 to Otto and Alma (Boehm) Dittner in Nash, Oklahoma at her parents farm. She went to school from first through eighth grades at Fairview District 12 ½ school and went to high school at Goltry, graduating in 1933. Matilda was very dedicated to her family and was always ready to help them whenever she was needed. She had a great sense of humor and loved to tell jokes and tell stories about her family and friends. She was quite a talker and always the life of the party. Matilda worked many years at the Armour Packing Plant. She worked first in the meat packing department until she was promoted to secretary for the Armour's Union. Matilda worked 21 years as the secretary for the International Union of Operating Engineers from which positin she retired at age 62. Matilda, the fourth born of seven children is survived by her sisters and brother: Elsie Streich, George Dittner, Louise Stuller, & Clara Huffman. She was preceded in death by two brothers: Herbert Dittner who died in 1974, and Lewis Dittner, who died in the military in World War II at the English Channel. As printed in "the OKEENE RECORD", Thursday, June 20, 2002, Okeene, Blaine County, Oklahoma, U.S.A. - 73763.