Pleasant View Cemetery, Woods County, Oklahoma

April 2, 1921 - July 31, 2019

Funeral services for Gladys Wilt will be Saturday, August 3, 2019, at 10 a.m. at Wharton Funeral Chapel with Dr. Carol Cook Moore, pastor, First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will follow in Pleasant View Cemetery. Online condolences may be made at http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.

Gladys was born April 2, 1921, in the Pleasant View Community of rural Woods County, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Lucy (Humes) and Howard Hickman. She passed away at her home on July 31, 2019, at the age of 98 years 3 months 29 days.

Gladys grew up on the family farm with four brothers and two sisters. She attended school at Pleasant View, a little one room schoolhouse that she walked a little over a mile to get to. She attended until she graduated from the eighth grade.

Gladys married Frank Clinton Wilt on October 29, 1938, at Medicine Lodge, Kansas. They lived and farmed on an acreage about three miles from the Hickman homestead. Gladys and Frank moved to Alva in December 1947, where Gladys became a housewife and raised their two sons, Earl and Lewis, both of Alva.

Gladys enjoyed hand quilting and cooking. She loved making her family Sunday dinners all the way up until she was in her early 90s. She loved to decorate. especially around the holidays. She enjoyed her gardens that were filled with flowers and vegetables. She liked visiting with her family and close neighbors.

She also enjoyed traveling to Red River, New Mexico, and sitting around the campfire with her friends. Gladys saw and lived through much of America's history, such as women gaining the right to vote in the 1920s, the Great Depression in the '30s, followed with World War II. In earlier years she got to witness the invention of the television.

She is preceded in death by her parents; husband Frank in 1968; all four of her brothers, Floyd, Everett, Bill and Leroy; and her sister Mildred.

Gladys is survived by her sons Earl and wife Lynn Wilt, Lewis Wilt, younger sister Oleta Snow, and many nieces and nephews, other relatives and friends.

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