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Mildred Lou HOKE

Elmwood Cemetery
Mississippi County,
Arkansas

Sept 3,1919-July 5,2013

Mildred Lou Hubbard Hoke, age 93, of Blytheville, AR., died Friday, July 5, 2013, in Jonesboro, AR.
She was born Sept. 3, 1919, in Blytheville, AR., the daughter of George Gaines Hubbard and Leah Mary Grindell Hubbard. The Grindell family was one of Blytheville's earliest families.
On June 29, 1945, she was married to Wallace Stuart Hoke of Raton, N.M.; he preceded her in death in 1998.
Mildred Lou attended college at Southwestern at Memphis (Rhodes College) where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta Sorority. She was an active member of Calvary Episcopal Church in Osceola and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church in Blytheville, serving faithfully on the Altar Guild at both churches. As a member of St. Stephen's she was the first woman elected to serve as a Vestry member in the Episcopal Diocese of Arkansas and represented St. Stephen's several years as a delegate to Diocesan Convention. She was a founding member and president of the Junior Auxiliary Chapter in Osceola and a longtime member and president of Chapter N P.E.O. She was vice president of Hubbard and Hoke Furniture, which was founded by her father in 1916. For a number of years she managed The Cupboard, a division of Hubbard and Hoke Furniture.
Mildred Lou was preceded in death by her brother, George Grindell Hubbard, in 1985.
She is survived by all five of her children, Stuart Hubbard Hoke of Fearrington Village, N.C., Carole Nixon Hoke Johns of Columbia, Mo., Sara Lou Hoke Long (Clark) of Blytheville, Marion Leah Hoke Rainey (Steve) of Stow, Ohio, and Wallace Scott Hoke (Mary Beth) of Jonesboro; 11 grand-children, Ramsay Stuart Hoke, Bennett Winters Hoke, Molly Virginia Johns Tennyson, Arlis Clark Long Jr., Nathaniel Wallace Long, Leah Mary Johns, Anna Kathleen Long, Sara Jane Hoke De Stefano, Joseph Christopher Hoke, Scott Stephen Rainey and Lyndon Wallace Rainey; and eight great-grandchildren. She is also survived by her sister-in-law and longtime friend, Jane Sheddan Hubbard of Jonesboro; and nephews, George Hubbard III, Bill Hubbard and Ben Hubbard.

Photo courtesy of Debbie Carey

Contributed on 7/14/14 by bill060
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Submitted: 7/14/14 • Approved: 7/15/14 • Last Updated: 7/18/14 • R1021958-G1021958-S3

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