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Zora Lee (Minor) & Dormie Edmond Mills
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Dibble Cemetery, Dibble, McClain Co. OK

© Jan Fendley

Obit for Dormie rewritten & posted by Jo Aguirre

Funeral service for Dormie E. Mills, 85, of Blanchard, Ok, were held at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 10, 1991 at the Freewill Baptist Church, Blanchard, Ok, with Rev. J. R. Hall, pastor officiating. 

Burial followed  at the Dibble Cemetery , Dibble , Ok. under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home of Chickasha.

Dormie E. Mills was born Nov. 1, 1905 at Asher, Ok, to Archie and Sarah Mills.
He married Zora Lee Minor on January 21, 1923 at Purcell, Ok and to this union 7 children were born, all of whom are living except for an infant son Eddie Lee, who passed away in 1937. Dormie farmed in Grady County from 1925 until he entered the dairy business in 1945.  In 1965,  he retired and moved to the Mills family home place in Dibble . After retirement, he served as mayor of Dibble from 1976-86. He devoted lots of time to community work and was instrumental in many community accomplishments. He was a loyal member of the Dibble Freewill Baptist Church from 1924 and served as a Deacon since 1938. Dormie lived a long and enjoyable life, always wanting to share his many memories of his days in and around the Dibble community.

He is survived by his wife Zora Mills of the Senior Village Nursing Home in Blanchard, 2 sons Kenneth Mills and wife Dorothy of OKC, W.R. Mills and wife Leora of Alex, 4 daughters Jean (Mills) Barrett and husband Harmon of Norman, Dena (Mills) Doyle and husband Wayne of Tulsa, Wilma (Mills) Graham and husband Elvis of Blanchard, Juanita "J.J." (Mills) Harms, widow of the late Stormy Harms, Del City, Ok, 3 brothers Fred Mills of Lindsay, Ok, Elton Mills of Chickasha, Alvin Mills of Blanchard, 4 sisters Velma Vinzant of Hemet, Ca, Vadys Mimson of El Paso, Tx, Lucille Lanter of Phoenix, AZ, Faye Minor of Manteca, Ca,  13 grandchildren, 24 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren. 

In addition to his infant son, Eddie Lee, he was preceded in death by 1 sister Gladys Stidham in 1968.