Obit of Fuhrmann, Mildred - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma

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::Center Chapel Cemetery--Leedey OK 

Mildred Fuhrmann

HEREFORD - Mildred Fuhrmann, 83, died Thursday, April 24, 2003. 
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church. Ashes will be buried at Center Chapel Cemetery in Roger Mills County, Okla. Arrangements are by N.S. Griggs and Sons Funeral Directors, 2615 Paramount Blvd. 
Mrs. Fuhrmann was born to Dow and Maud Jones in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, in 1919. She married Ronald Fuhrmann in 1940 in Oklahoma City. They moved to Hereford in 1956 from Adrian. Previously, the Fuhrmanns had farmed near Mayfield, Kan. Upon arrival in Hereford, Mrs. Fuhrmann worked as a secretary at First United Methodist Church, then as cashier at Hereford Texas Federal Credit Union and finally as legal secretary for attorneys Witherspoon, Aikin and Langley for 22 years. She retired in 1981.
She also served as secretary to the legal counsel of Texas Sugar Beet Growers Association and legal secretary of Deaf Smith County from 1976 to 1977.
Mrs. Fuhrmann chaired blood drives for the Deaf Smith County Chamber of Commerce for 10 years and was named Woman of the Year for 1991. She was active in civic organizations La Plata Club, Los Ciboleros Chapter of Daughters of the American Revolution, King's Manor Auxiliary, of which she was a past president, and Eastern Star, where she served two terms as Worthy Matron.
In the United Methodist Church, she was chair of the caring committee, member of the choir, a local and district officer in United Methodist Women, Homebuilders Class, Carrie Black/Naomi Hare Circle, Daybreak Prayer Ministry and Emmaus Community. 
Survivors include her husband; four daughters, Glenda Fuhrmann of Black Mountain, N.C., Wanda Penner and Nedra Pedersen of Burbank, Calif., and Naomi Devers of Little Rock, Ark.; three sons, Stanley of Madison, Wis., Larry of Los Angeles, and Joel of East Windsor, N.J.; eight grandchildren and one great-grandchild; three sisters, Frances Davis of Grass Valley, Calif., Paula Walker of Arcadia, Calif., Virginia Unruhe of Ojai, Calif.; and a brother, Calvin Jones, of Rio Rancho, N.M.
Amarillo Globe-News, April 26, 2003 
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