Obit of Waltz, Lillian McCune - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips <okarchives@comcast.net>   28 May 2006
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Waltz, Lillian McCune

Lillian McCune Waltz was born August 19, 1912 and lived with curiosity and 
a zest for life for 90 years. She died January 1, 2003. Born in 
Shippensburg, Pennsylvania, she was the tomboy who learned to swim while 
her older sister Helen stayed home with their mother. Lillian married 
Everett Waltz after graduating from Shippensburg State Teachers" College. 
They moved with the W.T. Grant Company to Santa Barbara, California, where 
she longed for the stormier weather in the place where she was raised. 
"The weather was so perfect there I just wanted to see a cloud," she said. 
They returned to the East coast, where a son, Mike, was born and died at 
age one of pneumonia, before the advent of penicillin. Their only 
daughter, Karen, was born nine years later in Brooklyn, N.Y., while 
Lillian's husband was in the Navy during World War II. In Danbury, 
Connecticut and Westerly, Rhode Island, my mother was an English teacher 
and a high school librarian - always as interested in the students as the 
subject matter she was presenting. She was a vigilant mother, direct in 
conversation, conservative in money management, and an excellent cook. 
After my father retired, they moved permanently to Ft. Lauderdale, 
Florida, where they had wintered for several years. He died in 1994, two 
months short of their 60th anniversary. My mother loved living near the 
ocean in Rhode Island and Florida, often excited by a beautiful sunset and 
awed by the eternally changing moods of the water. She was a good natured 
competitor as a young woman, played a good game of tennis and later golf 
and bridge always remembering that they were, after all, games. Above all, 
she loved us and we loved her. She is survived by daughter Karen and her 
husband Bob Browne of Oklahoma City; granddaughter Cori of New York City; 
and grandson Web of Tulsa. "Lilly Lamb" has gone back to live with 
Everett. This eulogy was delivered at a memorial service held in Florida.

Published in the Oklahoman on 1/12/2003.
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