Submitted by: Jim Woodruff

Obit for Loretta posted by Janet Laubhan Flickinger
Jun 5, 1930 - Jan 18, 2012

 

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Hamilton, Loretta Jean, 81, passed away Wednesday, January 18, 2012 in Granbury, Texas. 

She was born on June 5, 1930 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Henry and Nova (Kennedy) Wilson.  When Loretta was six months of age her family moved to a farm on West Robinson in Norman graduating from New Hope school and Norman High School.  She attended the University of Oklahoma for one year.  She married Dwight Hamilton who passed away in 1994 then remarried Ernie Geary in 2001 and he passed in 2006.  

Loretta's professional hats included daughter, wife, mother, secretary, bookkeeper, medical transcriptionist, baker, host parent to international students, house director of sororities on the University of Oklahoma campus and author.  She was the author of Coming Full Circle published in 2006.  The book outlines her quest to uncover the details of her brother's death in WWII.

Loretta is survived by sons, Gary Dwight Hamilton and wife Linnea of Granbury, TX, Keith Douglas Hamilton and wife Debbi of Napa, CA and Hershel Dick Hamilton of Norman, OK; one daughter, Lorijayne Stephens and husband Owen of Norman; five grandchildren, Aimee Nava, Ashlee Nava, Colby Hamilton, Jacob Hamilton and Zachary Hamilton; aunts, Florene Brennan of Calimesa, CA and Mary Lee Jarvis of Norman; sister-in-law, Helen Wilson of San Jose, CA; niece, Cynthia Wilson Floyd; and nephew, Steve Wilson of San Jose, CA. 

She is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dwight Richard Hamilton; her husband, Ernie Geary; two brothers, Hershel Wilson and Marvin Wilson; sister-in-law, Sarah Wilson; and nephew, David Wilson.

Visitation will be held at Havenbrook Funeral Home from 1:00 – 8:00 p.m., Sunday, January 22, 2012 with the family greeting friends from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Funeral services will be held 1:00 p.m., Monday, January 23, 2012 at Alameda Church of Christ, 801 E. Alameda St., Norman with interment following at Sunset Memorial Park Cemetery of Norman.  Arrangements for Loretta and her family were placed in the care of the Vice Family at Havenbrook Funeral Home of Norman.