Saxon Ramsey

Saxon Gunter Ramsey was born the eldest of four daughters of Simeon Asberry and Myrtle Lee Gunter on Nov 9, 1918, on a farm southwest of Antlers, Oklahoma. She married Albert William Ramsey on March 20, 1954 in Tulsa, living most of their married years in Houston Texas. She was preceded in death by her husband, Nov 13, 1991. She is lovingly remembered by her two children: Linda Ramsey and Steven Albert Ramsey; a sister, Goldie Gunter Kuntz; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.

Saxon graduated from Southeastern State Teachers college, its name at the time, in Durant OK in 1941 and taught school in Antlers Oklahoma until joining the WAVES in 1943 continuing in service to the Navy through 1946. She moved to Tulsa where other family lived and she worked in insurance until her marriage to Albert. They met and married in Boston Avenue United Methodist Church; shortly thereafter moving to Ardsley New York for five years where Steven was born, then moving to Houston Texas. Saxon enjoyed being a mother and homemaker and being active in PTA and her church, Westbury United Methodist, for the next 16 years, then she returned to work as a bookkeeper and later became an enrolled agent for the IRS working for H&R Block. From 2007, Saxon lived with daughter Linda in Fort Worth where she was a member of Arborlawn UMC and enjoyed her friends in UMC Women's Circle groups and her friends in Ft Worth Presbyterian Women of Wisdom social group.

Saxon's legacy for her children is confidence from the security of a loving home; a love of reading, gardening and hand crafting; a connection to family history (both Gunters and Ramseys). Saxon's handcrafting in quilting, sewing, embroidery is a tangible reminder of the love she poured out.

Saxon battled macular degeneration in her later years, losing all but peripheral vision in her left eye to age-related macular degeneration and getting treatments for wet macular degeneration in her right eye. Saxon also has benefited greatly from the Texas Health Harris Methodist hospital system. If anyone is moved to honor Saxon with donations, the following organizations are offered as suggestions:

Retina Foundation of the Southwest

Texas Health Harris Methodist system