Mildred Ellen Newberry

Mildred Ellen Newberry passed from this life on July 31, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada from lung cancer. An already darkening world, has one less candle. She was born on January 8, 1944 to Jacob and Mildred Jackson in Greenville, Texas. An event she would tell you in a minute was shared by Elvis. Her family soon moved to the winter-blasted plains of Iowa. Her father was a truckdriver, long haul, who barely survived as an independent. Her mother was a housewife who raised six children.

Mildred married in her early sixties and had four children: Rhonda, Denise, Carmen and Dennis. She completed her high school via GED and applied for employment at a local naval air station, starting as a GS4, basically rank private. She was an inspector of first missile parts in California and reclaimed aircraft systems in Virginia, as a GS12-4. She had a drawer full of commendations showing what a determined woman she was, retiring in 2005.

Keep in mind that Millie’s email was Blondyfox and she deserved every letter. She watched Days of Our Lives for 50 years and she was known as the Slot Machine Queen. In 1978, in Washington State, Claude Newberry of Lone Wolf, Oklahoma met this beautiful lady name Millie and they have been inseparable since that time.

Mildred is preceded in death by her parents, Mildred and Jacob; four siblings; two children: Carmen and Dennis; and brother-in-laws: Dean and Lonnie. She is survived by Claude Newberry of the home; children: Rhonda Prather of Bellevue, Washington, Denise Rollins of Henderson, Nevada, John of Atlanta, Georgia and Jeremy, who resides in a Lone Wolf sized village in Connecticut; sister, Jackie of Nashville; brother, Carl of Minnesota; and sister-in-law, Andrea. Millie leaves a legacy of grandchildren: Katelyn, Tyler, Devan, Melinda, Ronald, Jocelyn, Parker, and Celeste; four great-grandchildren, one great-great grandchild, and a host of other relatives and friends.

Services for Millie were held in Lone Wolf, Oklahoma. Millie was laid to rest at Lone Wolf Cemetery.

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