Juanita L. Powers' Obituary
POWERS, L. JUANITA a 40 year Dallas resident, who recently moved her home to Ardmore, Oklahoma, because of ill health and to be near her family, departed this world, as we know it, on Tuesday, December 19, 2006. Juanita was an active player in the life of Greenland Hills United Methodist Church, having organized art shows there to help fund some of their mission programs, including 9/11 and school books for third world children. She was an avid painter and produced some 275 oil paintings over a period of about 12 years. She was a student of well respected art instructors, Nancy and Terrie Brown, of the Heritage Hut, River Oaks, Fort Worth, and her painting hung in offices, homes, and chapels from Utah to North Carolina and back to Santa Fe. Juanita loved to write poetry and won a major award for her poem, “My Mother’s Star”, plus three certificates for “Poem of the Year” and has been published various times by the International Poetry Society. Juanita held varied offices working and serving in the Business and Professional Women’s Club for some 20 odd years in Ardmore, Oklahoma, Oakliff, and Dallas, Texas. She was an asute business activist and served as Business Manager and part-Owner of Fashinns, a ladies sportswear manufacturer for 12 years, owned a children’s wear, The Peppermint Stick Boutique for 13 years, worked for Foleys, Preston Center, for 8 years before retiring to enjoy life and learn ballroom dancing, which she loved. She competed for 12 years and won many blue ribbons. Juanita came from a large family, all of whom have preceded her, except two younger sisters, Maxine Moore of Friendswood, Texas and Kathryn Lane of Anderson, Indiana. She leaves two daughters, Elaine Remy of Ardmore, Oklahoma her family, and Angela Porter of Ardmore, Oklahoma and Richard Wayne Miller of Hickory, NC and their families; Dona Reaser of Delaware, Ohio and her son, Bruce of Dallas; four great-grandchildren and four great, great-grandchildren. Services will be 11:00 a.m. Friday, December 22, 2006 at Greenland Hills Methodist Church, Dallas, TX. She will be laid to rest at Rosehill Cemetery in Ardmore, Oklahoma between her husband, Rex and her only son, Dennis M. Greene, at 3:30 p.m. following services on Friday. She joins her loving friends, Patsy Griffith, and Jerry Monte, Dancing down the Golden Strand. Happy Dancing! “Life is a cabaret, ol’ chum!” Arreverderci, Y’all! End of Story. As Paul Harvey likes to say, “And that’s the way it was.” Juanita Powers.
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