Sapulpa Herald
Sapulpa, Oklahoma
November 9, 2005
Arriving in this world on Aug. 4, 1918 in Sapulpa, Vera June
Harton was the fifth of six daughters born to Benjamin McFerrian
and Vera Brown Harton. In the very early hours of Nov. 6, 2005,
she departed from us to live eternally with our Heavenly Father.
Blessed with exceptional intelligence and unflinching
determination, she was the "little sister" who lived a life that
would alternately delight, gratify and confound her family.
June established welcoming homes, always filled with good
friends, good food and good conversation. She accomplished this
while working six days a week as proprietress of Merle Norman
Cosmetics Studios in Sweetwater, Snyder and Midland, Texas.
Having no children of her own, she loved and delighted in those
of her sisters; Benjamin Harton Robinson, Buddy Harton Bryant,
William E. Bryant, Benjamin J. Bryant, Barry L. Bryant, Paula
Outcalt Gwaltney, Linda Outcalt Parker, Gloria Outcalt
Broussard, Samuel D. Lewis, and Steven Patrick Odil.
She was preceded in death by her parents; sister Estahlee Harton
Lewis; and nephew Buddy Harton Bryant; sisters Juanita Harton
Scott of Boonville, Mo., Coleta Harton Bryant, of Tulsa, Mary
Gene Harton Outcalt, of Granbury, Texas, and Joy Carol Harton
Davis, of Austin, Texas; several cousins; great-nieces;
great-nephews; and a close circle of great pals in her
Castlewood neighborhood.
In recent months her dearest wish was to remain in her home.
That wish became reality through the generous presence of an
amazing caregiver Beverly Simmons. June came to love her, and
the family will forever be grateful for her considerable effort
in June's behalf.
June's father was pleased to claim that each of his daughters
had been "rocked in the Methodist cradle." Her final church home
was Oak Hill United Methodist Church in Austin, Texas.
June will finally rest alongside family in her hometown of
Sapulpa.
Long ago, she proclaimed that her epitaph should simply say,
"She had a kind heart," and so it did.
Funeral services will be 10 a.m. Friday, Nov. 11, 2005 at Smith
Funeral Home Chapel.
Smith Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements
The Tulsa World
Tulsa, Oklahoma
November 9, 2005
SAPULPA -- Vera June Sparks, 87, Merle Norman
representative, formerly of Sapulpa, died Sunday
in Dripping Springs, Texas. Service 10 am Friday, Smith Funeral
Home Chapel.
Submitted by
Anne Leach November 2005
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