Claudia M. Trotter Tucker

© Published in Enid, OK. News

Thursday, Feb. 8, 2007

Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes

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Claudia M. Trotter Tucker

The funeral service for Claudia M. Trotter, 88, will be 2 p.m. Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, at Friends Church with Rev. Ken Keeling and Rev. John Haven officiating. Burial will follow in Byron & Amorita Cemetery with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Cherokee. Visitation will be 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. today with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. On Friday, the casket will be open at the church before the service only. Online condolences may be shared with the family at www.lanmanfuneralhomes.com.

Claudia Mae Daniels was born in Amorita Dec. 25, 1917 to Sidney and Clemenza Barber Daniels and passed from this life Tuesday, Feb. 6, 2007 in Wakita.

Claudia attended Amorita Elementary School and graduated from Amorita High School.

She married Vern D. Tucker Dec. 28, 1935 in Alva, and to this union Carole Claudette was born. They lived in Byron and ran the hardware store. (It was known as the filling station and creamery). In 1949, they moved to the farm east of Byron. Vern died May 13, 1964. After Vern’s death she stayed on the farm and attended LPN training at Blackwell Medical Center in Blackwell. After Claudia’s training was complete, she worked at the Wakita Nursing Home, then at the Community Health Center in Wakita as Dr. Grave’s nurse for several years.

Claudia married George Alton Trotter April 2, 1970 at the Amorita Community Church and they lived in Cherokee. After she and Alton married, she worked in Wakita approximately one more year. Then she began working at McDowell Electric in Cherokee. She loved this store and worked there until her retirement at age 82. She knew and loved Cherokee residents and people from the surrounding communities. Even though Claudia was a business woman, her grandchildren and great-grandchildren were very important. She was a wonderful seamstress and cook who exhibited her love for her family by showering them with hand made items and delicious foot.

Survivors of Claudia include her husband, Alton of Cherokee; one daughter, Carole Grover and husband Ed of Byron; one brother, Ray Daniels and wife Peggy of Winfield, KS; one sister, Betty Markley of Winfield, KS; two grandchildren, Barry Grover and wife Celia of Fresno, CA, and Staci Wienecke and husband, Matt of Columbia, S.C.; four great-grandchildren, Calli Elizabeth and Whitney Lee Grover and Chandler Noel and Colton Robert Wienecke; the Daniels’ nieces and nephews; the Tucker’s nieces and nephews; the Trotter’s nieces and nephews; and a special caregiver, Paula Huff.

Those preceding Claudia in death were her first husband, Vern Tucker, one grandson, Bradley Carroll Grover, and one brother, Sam Daniels.

Memorials may be given to the Byron & Amorita Cemetery Association through the funeral home. (Paid Obit 2-08-1)