Graveside funeral service for Jean Mitzner will be 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, 2022 in Sunset Memorial Gardens with Dr. William F. Watkins officiating.

Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Jean Mitzner died Thursday, June 2, 2022 in McKinney, Texas.  She was born April 14, 1934 in Chattanooga, Oklahoma to L.P. and Alma (Forsythe) Hood.  She graduated from Lawton High School in 1952, married and sailed to Germany, accompanying her husband for his military service until 1955.  Her oldest son, Michael, was born in Frankfurt, Germany.

Upon returning stateside she lived in Tulsa and sons Mark and Miles were born.  She and her family were instrumental in helping establish what is now Skelly Drive Baptist Church.  She soon moved on to attend Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary.  She moved to Bokchito, Oklahoma to serve First Baptist Church and then to East Baptist Church in Denison, Texas and Calvary Baptist and Winnetka Heights in Tulsa, Oklahoma.  During these times she attended Cameron College, Southeastern State in Durant and Southwestern Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas.  In 1971 she came to First Baptist Church in Lawton to serve as children's director.  In 1979 she moved to Sagemont Church in Houston as Children's Minister, retiring in 1999.

Family includes:  three sons, Mike, Mark and Miles, and their wives, Joan, Jeannie and Ronda; six grandchildren, Matthew Mitzner, Julie Hornbeek, Clark Mitzner, Tom Mitzner, Zachary Mitzner and Jessica Mitzner Scully and their spouses, Sally, Heath, Makenzie, Kasondra, Taylor and Tim; and five great grandchildren, Duke and Eli Mitzner, Margot and Luke Hornbeek, Boston and Banks Mitzner, and Annie Mitzner; and in the company of 'family' are all the dear friends made through the years; especially Joe and Arleene Talley, my LHS Sisterhood, Darlene Koch, Frances Bryant, Jan Stevens, Kaye Benson, Joyce Shannon, John Morgan, Ralph Edwards and all of my Sagemont family – you are all very dear and made a print on her life.Family includes:  three sons, Mike, Mark and Miles, and their wives, Joan, Jeannie and Ronda; six grandchildren, Matthew Mitzner, Julie Hornbeek, Clark Mitzner, Tom Mitzner, Zachary Mitzner and Jessica Mitzner Scully and their spouses, Sally, Heath, Makenzie, Kasondra, Taylor and Tim; and seven great grandchildren, Duke and Eli Mitzner, Margot and Luke Hornbeek, Boston and Banks Mitzner, and Annie Mitzner; and in the company of 'family' are all the dear friends made through the years; especially Joe and Arleene Talley, my LHS Sisterhood, Darlene Koch, Frances Bryant, Jan Stevens, Kaye Benson, Joyce Shannon, John Morgan, Ralph Edwards and all of my Sagemont family – you are all very dear and made a print on her life.

An online guest book and sympathy cards are available at www.beckerfuneral.com