Gladys Helen Hurt

Gladys Helen Hurt was born in Henryetta, Oklahoma on November 27, 1928 to Willard Nathan and Leora Seacat Carter. She worked at the telephone office in Schulter upon her graduation from high school. Later she was married to William McCutcheon Roach and gave birth to her first child, Rebecca, at the John Taylor Hospital in Henryetta. They moved to California in 1949 and lived in Norwalk. Rebecca drowned while on vacation in Sequoyia State Park in California on Labor Day weekend in 1956. Helen and Bill later had two more daughters, Sandra and Lisa. In 1970 they moved back to Oklahoma and settled in Okmulgee. Helen worked for First National Bank, Moomau’s Shoes, and for Kelco until her retirement. She married Woodrow Hurt in 1980. Helen was active in the First United Methodist Church of Okmulgee, in Norwalk, California and in Galt, California. Helen’s greatest joy was being a mother and grandmother. Helen was preceded in death by her parents, Willard and Leora Carter, daughter, Rebecca Roach, and two sisters, Mary Katherine Phillips and Dorothy Childers. Helen is survived by her husband, Woodrow Hurt, of the home, two sisters, Eloise Carter of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma and Evelyn Johnson of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one brother, Willard Walton Carter of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, two daughters, Sandra Dunning and husband Marty of Hulbert, Oklahoma and Lisa Garcia of Cleora, Oklahoma, two step-daughters, Kathleen Dickinson and Meggie Miller of Owasso, Oklahoma, granddaughters, Kristen Dunning of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sydney Dunning of Baltimore, Maryland, Lindsay Hart of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Sharlotte Sandstede and Shiree Eskstrand of Tulsa, Oklahoma, Shonna Hill of Collinsville, Oklahoma, and a grandson, D.J. Miller of Seattle, Washington. She had six great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held 2:00 P.M. Tuesday, March 29, 2011 at the First United Methodist Church with Reverend Craig Denslow officiating. Interment will follow in the Westlawn Cemetery in Henryetta. Casketbearers will be Woodie Hurt, Bobby Hurt, Jeff Balthis, Mike Hurt, Matt Hurt and Justin Hurt. Honorary Casketbearers will be Bob Hurt, J.D. Hurt, Billy Lee Hurt, Clyde Hurt, Marty Dunning, Norman Hurt, Walt Carter and Daniel J. Miller. Friends may visit the funeral home on Monday from 10:00 A.M.-8:00 P.M. Memorial contributions may be made to the First United Methodist Church Pantry. Arrangements are under the direction of the McClendon-Winters Funeral Home of Okmulgee. Online condolences may be made at www.mcclendon-winters.com

Gladys Helen Hurt

November 27, 1979 - March 24, 2011