Obit of Naomi Mae (Pitts) Richardson - Grady County, Oklahoma

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The Chickasha Express-Star
7 July 2001


Naomi Mae (Pitts) Richardson

Services for Naomi Mae (Pitts) Richardson, 77, of Verden, will be at 
3:30 p.m., Saturday, July 7, 2001, at the Sevier Funeral Home Chapel 
in Chickasha, Okla., with Rev. Johnny Tims, pastor of First Baptist 
Church, Chickasha, officiating. Interment will be at Fairlawn Cemetery.

Mrs. Richardson was born Oct. 21, 1923, at Ft. Cobb, Okla., to 
Stirling and Maud Pitts, and died July 4, 2001, in Chickasha, Ok. 
She married Glenn Richardson of Ft. Cobb on Jan. 6, 1945, in Tecumseh,
Okla. She was a homemaker, mother and grandmother, and an active member 
of the First Baptist Church of Chickasha since 1951.

Her childhood was spent in the Ft. Cobb-Oney area, where she was a 
member of the Highland Methodist Church, attended Grand Prairie 
Elementary School, and graduated from Ft. Cobb High School in 1941. 
During World War II, she was an electrician in airplane construction 
at Douglas Air Force Base. 

Following their marriage, she and her husband lived west of Binger for 
five years, moved to Ninnekah in l950, to Chickasha in 1952, and to 
their farm near Verden in 1957. She was an active leader and supporter 
of school and community activities including Verden PTA, school and 
athletic organizations and Grady County 4-H Clubs. She was a representative 
and area manager for World Book. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson were honored as 
the Oklahoma Farm Bureau State Farm Family of the Year. She enjoyed oil 
painting, sewing and reading. The focus of Mrs. Richardson's life was 
her husband, children and grandchildren.

Mrs. Richardson was preceded in death by her parents, one sister, Mildred 
Beason of Lexington, and two brothers, Leo Pitts and Armor Pitts of California.

Survivors include her husband, Glenn, of the home; three daughters and 
their families, Linda McElroy, Lisa, and Greg of Purcell, Janell and Sam 
Hendry, Scott and Lauren of Shawnee, and Karen and Dean Cunningham, 
Michael and Daniel of Verden; one brother and sisters-in-law, Ralph and 
Euda Pitts, Lorene Pitts, and Etta Pitts of California; numerous nieces 
and nephews, and a host of other relatives and friends.