Alice Annette Atkinson Hughart, longtime Oklahoma City resident and recent Houston resident, went to be with her savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, on June 22, 2024, at age 101.
She was born Dec. 20, 1922, in Quail, Texas to Mr. and Mrs. Alvin W. Atkinson. She graduated from Quail High School in 1941 and was in the “Who’s Who Texas High Schools.” She attended Hills Business University in Oklahoma City, then worked at Tinker Field in Civil Service for eight years. She met and married Donald L. Hughart at Wesley Methodist Church in 1947. Donald preceded her in death in 1988.
She is survived by two daughters, Charlotte Ann Hughart and her husband Paul Eckman, of Loveland, Colo., and Marsha Sue Hughart and her husband, David Childers, of Houston; one sister-in-law, Nina Atkinson Snider, of Plainview, Texas; and four grandchildren, five great-grandchildren, two nephews and one niece, all of Texas.
She was predeceased by her parents; her brothers, A.W. Atkinson and Orville Atkinson; and her sister-inlaw, Margaret Atkinson.
Alice belonged to Wesley United Methodist Church for over 70 years and was always active in Sunday School and other activities at her church. She had been a Camp Fire Girls leader for 15 years. She was also active in the Garden Flower Club, Book Review Club, Home Movie Makers Club and MacDowell Club of Allied Arts, and she enjoyed traveling. She loved being a “jet-set” babysitting grandmother for her two precious grandchildren in Houston when they were young. Alice moved to a retirement home in the Fort Worth, Texas area in 2010 to be near her daughter, Charlotte, and later, to a retirement home in Houston in 2016 to be near her daughter, Marsha.
Funeral services, at Rose Hill Burial Park, 6011 NW Grand Boulevard, Oklahoma City, are to be arranged.
Memorials may be made to Wesley United Methodist Church, 1401 NW 25th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73106.
