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Martha M (Sullivan) & Burton Melvin Miner
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Oct 5, 1927 - Feb 22, 2016
Posted by Janet Laubhan Flickinger
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Martha M. Miner longtime area resident, passed away Monday, February
22, 2016 at her home. She was 88 years of age.
Funeral services will be held 2:00 p.m. Thursday, February 25, 2016
at Grace Memorial Chapel with Pastor Jimmy Kenner of Otoe Baptist
Church of Red Rock, OK Interment will follow in the Red Rock
Cemetery under the direction of Grace Memorial Chapel. There will be
a visitation time for family and friends at Grace Memorial Chapel
from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, February 24, 2016. The family has
requested Memorials be made to the Otoe Baptist Church in Red Rock,
OK or the Stillwater Bible Church in Stillwater, OK.
Martha was born on October 5, 1927 to Walter and Zella Tanksley
Sullivan in Oxford, Kansas. Martha came to the Red Rock area with
her parents as a child and grew up attending school in Red Rock and
she graduated from Red Rock High where she lettered in several
sports. She married Burton Miner on July 26, 1952 in Gainesville, TX
and they made their first home in Gainesville and moved to Red Rock,
OK a short time later. Martha worked as a Southwestern Bell Operator
for a time in Red Rock and Ponca City She also owned and operated
the Green Lantern Café in Red Rock for several years and in 1974
went to work with her husband operating the I.O.O.F. cemetery in
Ponca City until 1995. During her spare time Martha enjoyed spending
time with her Family, Dancing, Gardening and working out in the
yard.
She is survived by her 4 Children: John Miner and wife Janice of
Pawnee, OK Connie Johnson and husband Don of Argyle, TX Danny Miner
and wife Tonda of Pawnee, OK and Mark Miner and wife Delphine of
Ponca City, OK. 8 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren and several
nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her Parents Husband Burton in 2002, 1
son Melvin Miner in 1972, 1 granddaughter McKala Miner in 2014 and a
great granddaughter Halli Tessmann in 2014 and 1 sister.
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