Memorial service for Ima Jean Parrack Kurtz, 98, Lawton, will be 10:30 am Monday, January 2, 2012 at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rodger Schwenn, Minister, Sullivan Village Church of Christ, officiating. Mrs. Kurtz died Saturday, December 31 at her home. Arrangements are with Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Ima Jean was born April 23, 1913 in Forestburg, Montague County, Texas to Marvin Dillard and Belle (Reynolds) Parrack. When she was eight years old the family moved to Cotton County, Oklahoma in the Union Valley Community. Her mother passed away in 1921 and her father in 1948. She was raised on a farm east of Cookietown by her paternal grandparents, Napoleon Bonaparte and Mary Ann (Pierce) Parrack. Ima Jean attended Union Valley School where she graduated in 1934. In 1935 she started working in Walters where she met Frank Kurtz. They were married June 1, 1936 in Wheeler, Texas and their first child; Frankie Geneva was born April 3, 1937 at their home in Walters. The family moved to Lawton in 1938 where Frank became a self-employed interior/exterior decorator. Their second child Sybilla Ann was born April 25, 1939, and shortly after her birth the Kurtz family had a home built at 1509 D Ave. where their son David Paul was born January 22, 1941. This was the family home for 58 years. Ima Jean was a homemaker and took care of her family during a time when the country was at war and times were hard. In June of 1998 she sold the family home, and she and her two daughters Frankie and Sybilla had a home built in southwest Lawton. She was a member of the Sullivan Village Church of Christ where she attended for many years. She is survived by a daughter, Frankie Kurtz Browning, Lawton; a son, David P. Kurtz and his wife Era Faye, Wichita, Kansas; a granddaughter, Judie Ingram McMath, her husband Eldon and two sons, Joshua and Ethan Rall, Lawton; a granddaughter, Clarissa Kurtz Cox, her husband John and their three children, Corey, Stacey and Jeremy, Augusta, Kansas; a grandson, Michael Kurtz and his two children, Christopher and Kirsten; a great great grandson Logen Rall; and a brother, Raymond "Buck" Parrack, Waukomis, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; a daughter, Sybilla Kurtz Ingram; a brother, Eldridge Parrack; and two sisters, Flossie Parrack Van Dervort and Alma Parrack Armon. Memorial contributions may be made to the Sullivan Village Church of Christ, 531 SE 45th St., Lawton, OK 73501.