Iva was born on July 12, 1934 in Chattanooga, Ok. Her parents were Josephine and Iverson Little. She attended school in Lawton and graduated from Lawton High School in 1953. Iva worked several years for the telephone company in Lawton. She moved to Oklahoma City where she worked, until retirement, for American General Life Insurance Company. Iva passed away on February 2, 2019 at the age of 84. She is survived by her sister, Dorothea (Little) Wood of Peoria, AZ, her niece, Teresa Bryan (Mike) of Memphis, TN and her nephew, Donald Wood of Peoria, AZ. She will be buried in the family plot at Highland Cemetery in Lawton, OK 11:00 am on Thursday, February 7, 2019.