Funeral service for Mary Lou Day will be at 2:00 pm Monday, July 3, 2017 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel.

Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens, Lawton.

Mary Lou Day, 88, Rush Springs passed away Friday, June 30, 2017 in a Marlow nursing home.  She was born May 12, 1929 in Gregory, SD to Elmer Edward and Pearl Belle (Lewis) Mille.  She married Marvin Nehemiah Brown in May of 1946 in San Diego, CA.  They later divorced.  He passed away January 4, 2001.  She then married Millard Weldon Day on May 29, 1963 in Wichita Falls, TX.  He passed away March 29, 1995.  She lived in numerous states during her husband's military career, and even lived in France for four years with their young children.  They returned to the US via ship and at this time she met lifelong friends Bill and Simone Driggers. They settled at Fort Sill where she worked in various positions on post to help provide for the family.  She worked for many years as a tax preparer for H&R Block before going to work for herself.  She was a seamstress, former resident of Medicine Park, Sterling and Lawton.  She was an amazing cook who pleased many and never let anyone go hungry.  "Cindy, there are onions in the beans."  Mary Lou's love of music influenced all her children and grandchildren and many others whom she met.  She had a beautiful voice and was always singing to please herself as well as others.

Survivors include her 5 children: Berry Day and wife Norma Dean of Lawton, Harley Dale Brown and wife Liz of Glenn Heights, TX, Julie Smith and husband Larry of Rush Springs, OK, Marva Sadler and husband Harley of Mooreland, OK, Kathy Day of Caney, OK, daughter-in-law Niki Day-Wyatt and husband Darrin of Caney, OK, numerous grandchildren, great grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, close friend Mariann Cannon of Farris, OK.

She was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, her son Kenneth Edward Day, brother Harlen Dale Mille (Bobby), daughter Francis Heslip, grandson Harlen Dale Brown, Jr. and lifelong friends Bill and Simone Driggers.