Ona Lee Reid Floyd passed away on February 19, 2007, at the age of ninety-six. She was the oldest of nine children born to Alonzo and Pearl Reid in Berwyn, Oklahoma, on May 11, 1910. She worked as a young girl in the cotton fields of Oklahoma, helped raise her siblings, and managed to finish high school along the way. Ona, along with Frank Allen and Juanita Keefner, who of the three are the only two living now, was the oldest of the class of 1929 of the Irving School. She worked as a live-in house keeper to put herself through college during the depression. She graduated in Chickasha from OCW with her BS Degree. After graduation, she began a career teaching school, a profession she dearly loved. She married the Reverend John Floyd, had two children, and continued teaching school five years in Oklahoma and twenty-two years in Texas, while also serving as the preacher’s wife, until retirement.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Rev. John L. Floyd, her daughter, Melvita Foster, three brothers, Elmer, Jewel, and Quentin, and three sisters Bonnie Faye, Lucille and Madaline.

Survivors include: her son Dr. John Floyd and his wife Barbara, of Cedar Rapids, IO; three grandchildren - John Floyd and his wife Rachael Snow of Pacific Grove, CA, Dr. Karen Floyd of Tucson AZ, and Elizabeth Ann and her husband R.C. Hard of Chandler, AZ; and two sisters - Nettie Ruth and her husband Hubert Cowan, and Lois Cochenour, both of

Ona was kind and loving, but she kept her toughness and stoicism from the cotton fields all the way to the finish line. She will be sorely missed.

Funeral services for Mrs. Floyd were at 1:00 PM, Saturday, February 24, 2007, at the First Christian Church in Waurika, Oklahoma, with Rev. Curtis Plant officiating. Burial was in the Waurika Cemetery under the direction of Dudley Funeral Home of Waurika. The family received visitors Friay, February 23 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM.