Dorothy Montgomery

Dorothy Juanita was born to Odie and Opal Newman on July 23, 1940 at Indianola, Oklahoma. Growing up, she went to church in Indianola at the New Hope Free Will Baptist Church. She attended elementary school at Indianola, then McAlester Schools until the 10th grade. She attended high school in Santa Maria, California. Juanita met LaVerne Montgomery by way of a joke between two friends. It all started with letters written back and forth for over a year and then they finally met in Indianola. They later married on December 16, 1957 in Santa Maria, California. After they got married, she and Verne moved back to Oklahoma. Juanita was a devoted housewife who loved crocheting, quilting, gardening, and canning. She was most famous for her cooking, especially baking her homemade cream pies. Juanita also helped her husband on the farm and also building homes. Survivors include: her husband, LaVerne, of Eufaula; her three children, Vernon Montgomery of Eufaula, Linda Silk of Eufaula, and Marlene Montgomery of Stillwater; her brothers, Curtis Newman of Scipio, Bobby Newman and wife Norma of Warner and Odie Lee Newman, Jr. of Eufaula; her sisters, Betty Seale of McAlester, Inez Johnson and husband James of McAlester, and Ruby Thorne and husband Tommy of Porum Landing; four grandchildren and three great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents and one sister, Barbara Wheeler.