Alta May Worrell

Alta May Worrell passed away on Thursday, June 20, 2013 at Eastwood Manor in Commerce, Oklahoma. She was ninety-four. Alta was born on August 1, 1918 in Dewey, Oklahoma to Alfred Lee and Hattie Edith (Demory) Putnam. In 1939 Alta married R.B. Worrell in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Mrs. Worrell studied three years at Oklahoma A&M (now Oklahoma State University) and finished her Bachelors Degree from The University of Oklahoma in 1940 then began a career that would span a half a century. She started February 1, 1943 as a Junior Public Welfare Worker, she then worked at other positions before she became Senior Social Services Supervisor in the Food Stamp Program. Mrs. Worrell had seen the department through many changes, names and locations. Governor David Walters declared on January 29, 1993 Alta M. Worrell Day in the State of Oklahoma. Alta was quoted at her retirement as saying “I still have my health. And I think 50 years working is long enough.” That was at age seventy-four. Alta was preceded in passing by her parents, A.L. and Edith Putnam, a brother Lee Putnam and two brother-in-laws Robert J. Rogers and Harold Fehnel. Survivors include her daughter Sue Reding and her husband Glenn of Miami, a granddaughter Shelly Wilson and her husband Curtis of Broken Arrow, a grandson Scott Reding and a granddaughter Shannon Klaus and her husband Greg all also of Broken Arrow. Other survivors include her six great-grandchildren a sister Daisy Rogers of Denton, Texas, a Brother Roy Putnam and his wife Kathy of Gold River, California, a sister Beverly Fehnel of Itasca, Texas, and a sister in law Jean Putnam of Gainesville, Texas and many nieces nephews. Services will be 10:30 AM on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at the First Baptist Church of Miami’s Chapel with Reverend Rick Longcrier officiating. There will be a private family interment before the service at the Grand Army of the Republic Cemetery in Miami under the care of Brown-Winters Funeral Home and Cremation Service of Miami. Friends and family may send the family notes of encouragement by viewing Alta’s Tribute Page at www.brown-winters.com.

Alta May Worrell

August 1, 1918 - June 20, 2013