Age 81, Edmond - Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Saturday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with David Hoyt, Russell Crook and Jay Crook, Nephews, officiating. Mrs. Parton died Wednesday in Edmond. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. She was born October 21, 1927 in Chattanooga, Oklahoma to Clinton Ward and Clara Jane (Armstrong) Crook. She worked two and a half years in Frederick and nine and a half years in Lawton as a telephone operator. She moved to Lawton in 1950 and worked 27 years (1966 to 1993) as a real estate broker with Bea Jones Realty. She married SFC (Ret) Fred Degiovanni on August 27, 1960 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He died August 20, 1981. She then married Claude S. Parton on June 12, 1987 in Altus, Oklahoma. He died April 28, 2000. She moved to Oklahoma City in 2001. She was a member the University Church of Christ, the American Business Women's Association, the Southwest Oklahoma Opera Guild where she served on the Membership Committee, the Lawton Board of Realtors and served twice on the Executive Board. She was elected as Secretary, Treasurer, Vice President and served on several committees. She was elected Realtor of the Year for 1987 and was a member of the Graduate Realtors Institute. Survivors include two daughters, Renee Culver and husband Johnny of Lincoln, Alabama and Catherine Gass and husband Andrew of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; a grandson, Justin Gass and wife Jessica of Perth, Australia and a brother, LaVon Crook and wife Lorena of Lawton, Oklahoma and a sister-in-law, Reta Crook, Mineral Wells, Texas.She was preceded in death by a sister, Lois Hoyt and a brother, Ray Crook. Memorial contributions may be made to the Tipton Children's Home; P.O. Box 370; Tipton, Oklahoma 73570.