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Obituary
Fort Sill Cemetery
Comanche County, Oklahoma
Submitted by:> Sandi Carter

© The Chickasha Express-Star
Chickasha, Oklahoma
Tuesday, 29 August 2006

Joyce Eliane Cranton

Funeral service for Joyce Eliane Cranton, 86, of Chickasha, Oklahoma will be held at 10:30 a.m., Thursday, August 31, 2006 in the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home.

Joyce Elaine Cranton was born the daughter of Josephine [Richem] and C. J. Cranton on October 24, 1919 in Choteau, Montana and died August 27, 2006 in Chickasha.

At the age of one year, the family moved to Chickasha, Oklahoma. She attended Chickasha Public Schools and graduated from Chickasha High School and Oklahoma College for Women, now USAO. She also attended graduate school at East Tennessee State University in Johnson City, Tennessee.

After graduating from OCW, she joined the Women's Army Corps, serving two and one half years. After her discharge, she taught elementary and high school in Elizabethton, Tennessee and vocational home economics in Achille, Oklahoma. In 1955 she was employed by the Veteran's Administration Hospital as a hospital dietician at Mountain Home, Tennessee. Other hospitals where she was employed as a dietician were Kansas City, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Chicago, Illinois; Albuquerque, New Mexico; and Ashville, North Carolina. The last four hospitals where she worked, she was chief of dietetic service. During her career, she received several performance awards and was listed in Who's Who in the West.

She also served as chief dietician at U.S.P.S. Indian Hospital at Lawton, Oklahoma. She retired from Government Service December, 1979 and moved back to Chickasha in 1980.

Joyce was a member of the American Dietetic Association and the National Association and the National Association of Retired Federal Employees. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Chickasha where she was very active. She was also a volunteer at Grady Hospice, Meals on Wheels and Mobile Meals.

Joyce was preceded in death by: Parents; one sister: Bernice Thomason; three brothers: Lloyd Cranton, Jack Harmon Cranton and Willard Cranton.

Survivors include: two sisters: Mary Ann Cavin and husband Onial of Chickasha; Vida Speir of Ponca City, Oklahoma; numerous nieces, nephews and great nieces and nephews including Ty Hurst and April Cavin which she was instrumental in raising.

Interment will be in the Ft. Sill Cemetery under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home.

Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice.



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