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Mary Kathryn Stroud, of Norman, died, Tuesday, August 28, 2012. She was 78 years old. She is a Christian.

Mary was born to Roy and Alice Milner in Olustee Oklahoma on November 20, 1933. She was married to Jerry Stroud in Altus, Oklahoma in 1950 . Together they raised four children and helped anchor a family that includes 17 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.

Mary was a home maker. She was a devoted wife and  a loving mother, grandmother and great-grandmother. In his last year Jerry used to look around the livingroom, where he often sat, and comment on how much he enjoyed the way Mary had decorated and arranged the house. He loved being in the home she made. Jerry preceded her in death by 13 months.

Mary was a wonderful cook and an expert seamstress-- Jerry liked to tell the story of Mary following a woman out of a restaurant, sketching what the woman was wearing so she could go home and make it. And who could count all the dresses and other pieces of clothing she made for daughter, sons, and grandchildren.
Mary did that wonderful duty of speaking the obvious to growing children and then repeating it as often as they needed. She filled such needs of our hearts in so many ways...  We will miss her deeply.
Although she was  surrounded by a God-fearing family in her early years, Mary actually became a Christian when she was forty while living in Venezuela. A wonderful woman from church asked Mary if she could come over and listen to Mary’s short-wave radio. It was a trick. The lady really wanted Mary to hear the Through the Bible broadcast out of Quito, Equador. They listened daily for some time and God touched her heart with the gospel of Jesus Christ. Mary believed.

Mary is survived by two sons, Tim of Norman and Michael of Gillette Wyoming.

She is preceeded in death by her parents, her siblings, Roilyn Danielson and Bob Milner, her husband, her son, Mark her daughter, Celia and two grandchildren.

Pallbearers are her grandsons.

A memorial/celebration meeting will be held at Calvary Chapel of Norman, 1401 W Boyd, at 10 a.m., Tuesday, September 4, 2012, under the direction of Havenbrook Funeral Home.

The family suggests that donations be sent to Thru the Bible Radio Network, P.O. Box 7100, Pasadena, CA 91109  (http://www.ttb.org).

Arrangements for Mary and her family were placed in the care of the Vice family at the Havenbrook Funeral Home of Norman.

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