We Will Miss You, Aunt Mary Lou!!

As a note to this -- it's really hard to lose four family members in one year. I'm hoping that the year will end death free for my family. Mary Dalton was my Great Aunt, Nancy Dalton was my 2nd cousin who I remember looking up to when we were younger (she's around my mom's age), and Paul and Dera Dillow are my grandparents who died 62 days apart (how I miss them so VERY much!!). What a year!

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Funeral service for Mary Lou Dalton, 75 of Lawton will be at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, November 14, 2008 at Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home Chapel with Chuck Pettigrew, pastor of Liberty Heights Christian Church, officiating.

Burial will be at Highland Cemetery under the direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home.

Mary Lou was born on January 3, 1933 in Lawton, Oklahoma to Fielding and Althea (Read) Hankins. She grew up in Lawton and graduated from Lawton High School in 1950. She attended Cameron College. She worked for Sears as a sales associate for 35 years, retiring in 1990. She moved to Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 2006. She was a member of the Sears X-Club as a retiree from Sears and was active with the Women's Christian Fellowship. She was a member of the First Christian Church and the Hill Crest Christian Church in Oklahoma City. She was active with the election board, tallying ballots.

She is survived by her son, Russell Dalton, of Morehead City, North Carolina; her daughter and son in law, Leta and Bruce Schneider, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; two brothers and sisters in law, Frank and Shirley Hankins, of Lawton and James and Sharon Hankins, of Wynnewood, Oklahoma; four grandchildren, John Schneider, Megan Schneider, Brinkley Marie Claxton, and Jade S. Johnson; her aunts, Betty Cole, Rosemary Crance and Margaret Lake; numerous nieces and nephews; and a host of cousins and other family members.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her daughter, Nancy Lynn Dalton; her sister and brother in law, Dera and Paul Dillow.

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