Obituary for Lillian Walton

Lillian Walton

February 3, 1926 – November 9, 2020

Lillian Doris (Davis) Walton, resident of Ponca City, died at 10:30 PM, November 9, 2020. She was 94 years old. A funeral ceremony will be held at 10:00 AM Friday, November 13, 2020, at Trout Funeral Home Chapel, with Reverend Matt Brown officiating. Face masks are required. Burial will immediately follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Stillwater. Viewing will be from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM, Thursday, November 12, 2020. Arrangements are under the direction of Trout Funeral Home & Crematory.

Lillian Doris was the first child of James William Davis and Mellie Mae England Davis. On February 3, 1926, Lillian was born in an adobe duplex house in rural New Mexico near what is now Arrey, New Mexico.It was unusually cold and damp the night Lillian was to arrive. Her father James had to travel about twenty miles in a buggy over dirt roads to the nearest doctor. Upon arriving he found the doctor already inebriated and ready for bed. By the time James got the good doctor in shape to travel and upon arriving home, Lillian had already been delivered with the help of her grandmother and a neighbor lady. The relieved doctor signed the birth certificate, pronounced her a healthy baby and was driven home.

Lillian graduated from Perkins High School in 1945. She then attended Oklahoma A&M graduating with a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education in 1950. Lillian was a teacher in the Ponca City School system for over forty years in which she taught many students who later became life-long friends.

Several years after school was dismissed for the summer, Lillian and her sister-in-law Jackie Davis, would travel to Yellowstone National Park where her brother Edwin Dale worked, to spend the summer and have many fun adventures. Lillian loved teaching and loved to interact with people,she enjoyed reading,enjoyed bible study, Sunday school and serving at Sunset Baptist Church.She loved packing Christmas Child shoe boxes every year. She loved sending cards and letters to many friends and family members.She gave encouragement to others in sharing her motto: “Hang in there!”

Lillian was proceeded in death by:parents- James and Mellie Davis ;sister-Melba Dixon; brother-Edwin Dale Davis;sister-in-law-Jackie Davis; brother-in-law-Charles Jackson; nephew-Douglas Jackson;daughter-in-law; Sue (Howell)Walton; daughter-in-law-Sun Im Walton; son-in-law-Lonny E. Osborn.

Surviving family includes:sister-Vivian L.Jackson, brother-in-law-James D. Dixon, son-William Walton, daughter-Janet Osborn grandson-Dr.John D.Walton and wife Dr.Mindi Walton and daughter Iris Marie grandson-Todd A.Walton and wife Brandi Walton grandson-William Floyd Walton and wife Jeanette, grandson-Troy Carson and wife Cathy and children- Faith and Joshua, granddaughter-Dawn Tullis and children-Damien, Victoria and Elizabeth, granddaughter-Michele Bigby, granddaughter-Yvonne Jensen and children Loy, Christian, Joshua, Benjamin, Hannah, Samuel, Abraham, Noah, Moses, Anna and Sarah, Nephew-Dr.David A.Davis and wife Cindy and family, Nephew-James Mark Dixon and wife LaQuita and family, Niece-Grace Klinger and husband Rick, Niece-Mary Miller and husband Bill and family, as well as many other relatives, friends, former teachers and former students too numerous to list.

Source: Trout Funeral Home