ENID — Funeral mass for Mildred Angela Novy Lacy, 91, of
Lawton, will be 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 23, 2011, at Sacred Heart
Catholic Church, El Reno, Okla., with Father Mark Mason officiating.
Mrs. Lacy passed from this life to her next on Sunday, Sept.
18, 2011, in Lawton, Okla.
Burial will be in El Reno
Cemetery , El Reno, Okla., under the direction of Becker
Funeral Home & Cremation Service, Lawton. A wake service will be 7
p.m. Thursday evening at Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel.
She was born to the late Edward and Bessie Novy on Jan. 30,
1920, in Oklahoma City, Okla.
Mildred was the oldest of seven children. Her earliest years
were spent on a farm located southwest of Oklahoma City, where the
International Airport now stands, and a family farm southeast of
Okarche.
Mildred attended Sunnyside School until the eighth grade and
later graduated from El Reno High
School in 1940.
She was a student at Hill's Business College in Oklahoma
City and was proud of her time learning airplane radio assembly in
Sayre, Okla., during the World War II war support effort.
She met Eugene Lacy one Sunday morning in Oklahoma City
after mass, through two matchmaking nuns. They were married June 7,
1943, at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Oklahoma City.
Mildred and Eugene eventually settled at Fort Sill, later
purchasing a home in Lawton. Mildred was a former 4-H Club member
and past president of the Knowledge Seekers' Homemakers' Extension
Club.
She was civic-minded and very interested in state and
national politics.
Mildred loved gardening and always kept a beautiful yard and
garden. Her love and selflessness to her family was unsurpassed and
she was at peace with her God.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Eugene Lloyd
and Jeri Lynn Lacy Jr. of Orange Park, Fla.; a daughter, Sherry Lacy
McClintock of Brandon, Fla.; a granddaughter and spouse, Melanie and
Mark Schucker of Lawton, Okla.; grandson, Matthew McClintock of New
York City; two stepgrandchildren, Misty North of Oak
Point , Texas, and Mindy
Burkhart of Orange Park, Fla.; two great-granddaughters, Sydney and
Ember Schucker, Lawton, Okla.; one great-grandson, Jack Schucker,
Lawton, Okla., and a stepgreat-granddaughter, Lana North of Oak
Point , Texas.
In addition, she is survived by three siblings and their
families: two sisters, Frances Lord and spouse Darrel Lord of
Oklahoma City, Okla., Rosella House and spouse Herschel House of
Hinton, Okla., and a brother, Edward Novy and spouse Henrietta Novy
of Covington, Okla.
She was preceded in death by a son, George Vincent Lacy; a
daughter, Marilyn Jean Lacy; and two great-grandchildren. Siblings
who preceded her in death were George Novy, Mary Jane Maly and
Bessie Reynolds.
