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May 2006 Lydia Barto [Garrett] Northcutt Age 85, formerly of Cement - Graveside service will be at 2:00 pm Thursday, May 11, 2006 at the Cement cemetery. Burial will be in the Cement Cemetery under the direction of Becker Cement Chapel, formerly Robbins Funeral Home. Lydia Northcutt, long-time resident of Cement, passed away in Edmond, Oklahoma on May 8th. She was born July 28, 1920 in Hamlin, Texas to John William and Lillie Barto Garrett and was a graduate of Hamlin High School. Lydia received an education degree from Bethany Nazarene College, now Southern Nazarene University, and did graduate work at the University of Oklahoma. Her first year's teaching job was for the Cement Public Schools. With only a year in the Duncan school system, she moved back to Cement schools and spent a total of 24 years teaching English and other language arts at the middle and high school levels. Lydia married William Winston Northcutt (1916-1986) in 1948 and had one child, Mark in 1951. She took time off to raise her son before heading the government's local Head Start program in Cement in the early sixties. She resumed her teaching career with the public schools in the mid-sixties and retired in 1985. She continued to help students with remedial work even after moving to an assisted living center in Edmond in 1997. Lydia was a member of the Oklahoma Eastern Star for over 50 years and a long-time member of the Cement Garden Club. She was a Cub Scout den mother, baseball and band mom, election official and served in several volunteer efforts around the Cement area. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Cement. Mrs. Northcutt is survived by her son, William Mark Northcutt and daughter-in-law Teresa Kay (Sewell), both Cement natives now living in Edmond. She has one granddaughter, Emily Lauren Northcutt, a sophomore at Edmond North High School. Lydia also has one surviving sister, Mary Lou Collins of metro San Diego. She was preceded in death by a brother, Joseph of metro Washington, D.C. In lieu of flowers, please make a contribution to your local school system or other educational facility. |