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ALVA — Memorial service for Mary Winn, 93, of Alva, will be held at a later date. Burial in Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery, Point Loma, Calif. Arrangements by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva.
Mary Margaret was born to Myrtle Luella Baker and Luther Raymond Hicks on March 3, 1919, in Keokuk, Iowa, and died Tuesday, Feb.19, 2013, at Share Medical Center, Alva, Okla. She was cremated and no service is planned, at her request.
Her schooling was in Oregon, Mo., graduating from high school in 1936.
She then went to California to live with her loving Aunt Veda, where she worked and met H. Dudley Winn in 1939. They secretly eloped to Yuma, Calif., on March 16, 1940, and had a second “formal” wedding with family in attendance on Oct. 26, 1940, in San Diego, Calif.
Dudley was a PFC in the Army, stationed in San Antonio, Texas, then in Neosho, Mo. While in San Antonio, Mary Margaret worked in the Officers Retirement Section, interviewing retiring officers. Dudley was discharged from the Army June 15, 1946. Upon return home he was greeted by a baby boy, H. Dudley II, born June 28, 1946.
After Jeffery Lawrence was born Aug. 20, 1953, they moved to their home at 1820 Euclid in El Cajon, Calif. They resided there until 1974, when they moved to 450 E. Bradley No. 131.
In 1968, Mary Margaret went to work for the El Cajon Valley High School principal’s office until she retired in March of 1985.
In 1980, her mother Myrtle came to live with the family after losing her second husband.
Dudley retired from his optometry profession in 1986. He died Oct. 25, 1994. He was cremated and his ashes are on the wall at Fort Rosecrans, Calif.
In December 2007, after suffering a stroke, she came to Alva, Okla., to share the home of her son, Dudley and Jeanne Winn. She had lived at Beadles Nursing Home since December 2012.
Mary is survived by two sons and their wives, Dudley and Jeanne of Alva, Okla., and Jeff and Carol of San Jose, Calif.; granddaughters, Danielle Hankins and Heather Summers of McKinney, Texas, Caitlin Winn of Forbestown, Calif., and Chloe Winn of San Jose, Calif.; stepgrandsons, Vaughn Rader of Alva, Darrin Rader of Tuttle, Okla., and Dale Rader of Alva; eight great-grandchildren; and many friends and family.
Memorial contributions may be made in her name to the Arbor Day Foundation, Freedom Volunteer Fire Dept., or charity of your choice.
Condolences may be made online at www.whartonfuneralchapel.com.
(Submitted by family)
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