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Leona Jesse Armstrong

1919 ~ March 7, 1983

Arlington County, Virginia
Enid Morning News
Date of Death: 7 March 1983

Leona Jesse Armstrong, a long – time resident of Enid, died March 7 at the Wilmington, Delaware Medical Center after a short illness.

Mrs. Armstrong was born in Missouri and spent her childhood in Oklahoma Territory around the turn of the century. In 1919 she married William Floyd Armstrong, who later became a court reporter, lawyer and Garfield County Attorney, at Enid, where they raised their family.

After the untimely death of her only son, Lieutenant William Floyd Armstrong Jr., while piloting a Navy Fury jet during the Korean War, and of her husband, a World War I I veteran of the Meuse – Argonne, Mrs. Armstrong relocated to Charleston, West Virginia, and then to Wilmington, Delaware in 1972.

An artist, in oils in earlier years, she moved into the field of hand-painted china and her pieces grace numerous East Coast collections. She was a life – long member of the Church of Christ and founder of the now renowned Cedar Lakes Arts and Crafts Fair in West Virginia.

Mrs. Armstrong is survived by her daughter, Faynola Osborn, of Wilmington; four grandsons, William Floyd Armstrong I I, M. D., of Indianapolis, Indiana; Frank Jeffrey Armstrong, Norfolk, Virginia; Linn Bland Osborn, Houston, Texas; David Armstrong Osborn, Columbus, Ohio; and two great-grandchildren. Private graveside services will be conducted at Arlington National Cemetery where she will be buried beside her husband, and near her son. 

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