Myrtle Versia Goodpasture Milton, died Sunday, April 11, 2010. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Fellowship Lutheran Church in Tulsa with Pastor Alan Fox officiating. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. at Hennessey Cemetery. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Fitzgerald Funeral Home, Ivy Chapel, of Tulsa.
She was born Jan. 1, 1914, to Madison Lenard and Amanda Canter Goodpasture, on a farm near Lacy, Okla. She had lived in McLoud, Shawnee and Harrah. She attended Oklahoma University on a music scholarship and received a bachelor's degree from Oklahoma Baptist University. She furthered her education by receiving a master's degree in counseling from the University of Oklahoma. She taught school for many years. She was a very good cook and enjoyed playing the piano, singing, sewing and teaching.
Survivors include two sons, Leroy M. Milton, M.D. and wife, Kathy, of McAlester, and James E. Milton, M.D. and wife, Jan, of Chickasha; daughter, Marilyn Sue Hicks and husband, Robert, Plano, Texas; nine grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her father, who died before she was born; her mother; six brothers and three sisters, and her first husband, Marvin G. Milton, in 1990. and her second husband, Charles L. Ankney in 1998.
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