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Millie Walbrick Cherry
22 Mar 1926 – 19 Sep 2022
| Birth | 22 Mar 1926 |
| Death | 19 Sep 2022 |
| Cemetery | Sunset Memorial Gardens Lawton , Comanche County , Oklahoma , USA |
| Added by | CallenRL on 23 Nov 2014 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/76834746 |
Bio
Graveside services for Millie Cherry will be Friday, September 23, 2022, at 1:30 p.m., at Sunset Memorial Gardens, under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. Millie Cherry, age 96 of Elgin, Oklahoma passed away Monday, September 19, 2022 at her home. Millie was born to Fred and Augusta Walbrick on March 22, 1926, in Edmond, Oklahoma. She attended school at Accredited Elementary School. She married Grady South on June 10, 1944, in Lawton, Oklahoma, with this marriage came along only one child, Mary Joyce South Cook. Grady and Millie divorced, but Millie remained very close to the South family. She later married Leonard Cherry, on November 26,1963, in Lawton, Oklahoma, where they lived. They then moved to their home north of Porter Hill Drive, where Millie loved to work in her vegetable garden each year. She and Leonard raised quarter horses until his death. They also enjoyed going to senior citizen dances in Cooperton, Oklahoma, and to listen to her beloved brother, Jack, play music. Millie worked her whole life. She started out in the cotton fields as a child. Then, as she got older, she worked in a bakery where she learned to make the best homemade pies. She worked for McClellan's in old downtown Lawton. She also worked at Meadors Department Store as a buyer for ladies' wear. She retired in 1986. Millie and Leonard were members of the Lawton Rangers and Southwest Cattleman's Association. Millie was a member of Richard Spur Baptist Church where she taught Bible School, Sunday School and worked in the office. After her retirement and the death of her husband, Millie devoted her time to taking care of her great-grandchildren, Brandon Keith and Shelby Lynn. She loved her family more than life. She had nine sisters and brothers and many nieces and nephews. She thought of her grandchildren as her own and always said that she did not have one child but four. Millie is survived by her daughter, Mary Joyce South Cook, of the home; grandchildren, Robert Johnson and Rhonda Johnson of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and Machelle Sanders of Lawton, Oklahoma; two great-grandchildren, Brandon K. Sanders, of Ft. Hood, Texas, and Shelby L. Sanders, of Lawton, Oklahoma; five great-great-grandchildren, Paisley Lynn, Jaxon Stephen, Aubree Machelle and Easton Paul all of Lawton, Oklahoma; and, Gavin Cole of Guthrie, Oklahoma. She is also survived by her sister, Alice Wainscott, of Duncan, Oklahoma, and a special brother, Jack Walbrick, of Lawton, Oklahoma, and many nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Leonard Cherry; her brothers, George Walbrick, Fred Walbrick, Arthur Walbrick, Paul Walbrick and Albert Walbrick; her sisters, Ida Warner and twin sister, Lillie Carr; and, a special sister-in-law Neva Walbrick.
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- Arthur Paul Walbrick 1908–1972
- Paul Arthur Wolbrick 1911–1996
- Ida Mae Walbrick Warner 1912–2011
- George Wolbrick 1914–1964
- Albert Walbrick 1921–1922
- Alice Walbrick Wainscott 1923–2024
- Lillie W. Walbrick Carr 1926–2014
- Jack Walbrick 1929–2023
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