Payne Co OK - Obit for Venus Ida Lovett transcribed from the Stillwater News Press, http://www.stwnewspress.com/ Submitted by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com ****************************************************** Thanks to http://www.stwnewspress.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.stwnewspress.com/ http://files.usgwarchives.net/ok/payne/obits/newspress/mar03.txt ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Stillwater News Press: http://www.stwnewspress.com/ ****************************************************** March 1, 2003 Venus Ida Lovett Venus Ida Lovett, 84, of Perry, died Thursday, February 27, 2003 at Oklahoma City. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Wanette Cemetery, Wanette. The Rev. Roger Dunn will officiate. Arrangements are under direction of Brown-Dugger Funeral Home. She was born to John Aretus and Vina (MacFarland) Depue on March 17, 1918 in Oklahoma City. On December 20, 1946, she and Joseph Hardy Lovett were married. He preceded his wife in death on July 25, 1974. She was a homemaker who enjoyed playing dominoes, sewing, crocheting and all kinds of crafts. She is survived by three sons, Joseph H. Lovett, Merryville, La., Edom A. Lovett, Haughton, La. and Dolen W. Lovett, Sumner, Wash.; three daughters, Ida Ruth Wade, Perry, Vina M. Wade, Hindville, Ark. and Dora Faye Lovett, Fayetteville, Ark.; two sisters, Myrtle Moody and Dot Russell, both of Duncan; 26 grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, she was preceded in death by her parents; one son, Leroy Robin Lovett; two brothers; and four sisters. ******************************************************