Vida May Briscoe Catron, died Nov. 29, 1992. She was looking forward to celebrating her 96th birthday on Nov. 30th. She was born Nov. 30, 1896 in Neodesha, Ks. and moved to Oklahoma Territory with her parents, Austin and Edwina Briscoe when she was three months old.

She graduated from Luther High School when she was fourteen, attended Oklahoma Normal College at Edmond, Ok. and taught school north of Luther in a one-room school where some of her students were bigger and older than she was. She rode a horse to school and when he refused to cross a wooden bridge, she turned him around and backed him across. This became a daily ritual as he refused to school and when he refused to cross a wooden bridge, she turned him around and backed him across. This became a daily ritual as he refused to cross otherwise.

In 1916, she married George L. Catron who was an Oklahoma County law enforcement officer for thirty-five years. She was preceded in death by he parents, her husband, and an infant sun, and her beloved sister, Hattie Thomas. She Is survived by daughters, Doris Nichols Anderson, Oklahoma City, Shirley Warner and husband, Harold, Wichita Falls, TX.; son, George L. Catron, Jr. and wife, Patricia Dean Catron, Reno, NV.; nine grandchildren and fourteen great grandchildren; a sister, Marguerite Briscoe Smith and husband, Richard, Luther, 01c; sisters-in-law, Esther Catron Hand and husband, Paul, Ferndale, Oren and fourteen great grandchildren; a sister. Marguerite Briscoe Smith and husband, Richard, Luther, Ok.; sisters-in-law, Esther Catron Hand and husband, Paul, Ferndale, We., Nora Mae Catron Smith and husband, Leo, Independence, Ks., Thelma Catron, Cherryvate, KS. and Dorothy Catron, Seatle, WA. Vida was the proverbial "other mother" to many of her nieces and nephews and friends of her children, and her memory will remain bright with those who are left behind. Graveside services will be 2 pm. Saturday at the Luther Cemetery. Baggerley Funeral Home, Edmond, Oklahoma