Rosary for Loretta Ann Wilbanks will be 11:00 A.M. Thursday, January 26, 2023 at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church. The Funeral Mass will immediately follow with Rev. Thomas Nallapatti, associate pastor and Deacon Bob Quinnett officiating.

Burial will follow in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Loretta Ann Wilbanks, age 72, of Lawton passed away Thursday, January 19, 2023 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.  She was born December 1, 1950 in Mamou, Louisiana to Matthew and Terry Lejune Guillory.  Loretta grew up in Mamou, Louisiana. As a small girl, she worked at the theater operated by her parents.  She also worked at the hospital as a lab tech.  She met her husband, Ray in Mamou. Three months later they were married.  They would have celebrated their 50 ^th wedding anniversary on May 12, 2023.  As an Army wife, she lived in a number of places to include Louisiana, Alaska, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas and Hawaii, and retired in Oklahoma.

She always supported Ray 100% while he was serving in the military.  She was there to welcome the wives and families of soldiers assigned to the units.  She and the commander's wife were very close and that was a key element in making a tour of duty better for the soldiers' families.  Loretta was also employed at a number of installations working as a sales associate, a seamstress, and manager of Fort Sill's Thrift Shop for over three years.

After Ray's retirement, she worked at Fort Sill while he attended Cameron University.

Following Ray's graduation, she continued to work and volunteer with the church community making many baptismal bibs and serving as secretary on the church council.

Her claim to fame was being called, "Grandma".

She left this world peacefully without any pain or suffering while holding Ray's hand.

She will be greatly missed.

Survivors include by her husband, Ernest Ray Wilbanks, two sons, Christopher P. Fuselier and Kevan J. Fuselier, two grandchildren, Danaka N. Fuselier and David L. Fuselier sister, Freida G. Fontenot and her husband, Dale, many nieces, nephews, grand nieces and nephews and great grand nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Ferdinand and Ella Reed Guillroy and Cysus and Lilly Vizina Lejeune, parents, Matthew and Terry Lejune Guillory and her brother, Sherald A. Guillory.