IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Wilba Lee

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Duggan

February 22, 1932 – June 13, 2019

Obituary

WILBA LEE DUGGAN, 87, joined her heavenly father on June 13, 2019. A lifelong member of the Lutheran Church, Wilba was born on February 22, 1932 to Rudolph and Emma Treiber, at Shattuck, Oklahoma. She grew up in the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma during the Great Depression and WW-II as a farmer's daughter where she learned the skills of milking, cooking, seamstressing, and truck and tractor driving. Wilba graduated from Shattuck High School in 1949 after winning honors as the best female driver in the Oklahoma State High School Driver Training Competition. She attended business school in Oklahoma City taking her first job with Mobile Oil Company, also in Oklahoma City.

On June 12, 1955 Wilba married II Lt. Daniel E. Duggan, at the Christ Lutheran Church in Shattuck, OK and immediately started a successful career as an army wife of over 30 years. Wilba traveled extensively with Dan serving in such places as Okinawa and Germany. Speaking German in the home while growing up, Wilba qualified and served as a telephone operator for the US Army in Stuttgart, Germany. In addition to being a home maker and army wife, Wilba became an accomplished artist in oils, acrylics, as well as tole painting. Wilba and Dan had three children: son Michael and wife Marja, daughter Cynthia Shonk and husband John, and son Kevin; seven grandchildren: grandson Kyle and wife Haley, granddaughter Janet and husband Jake, granddaughter Michelle, grandson Hunter Tomlin, grandson Shane, grandson David, and grandson Delayne; and one great-granddaughter: Leighton.

Wilba is survived by her children; grandchildren; great-grandchild; one sister: Elizabeth and husband Melvin; three brothers: Floyd and wife Mildred, Fred and wife Neva, and Randy and wife Kathleen; and a host of nieces and nephews.

Wilba will be interred at her hometown, Shattuck, OK where she and Dan grew up. A celebration of life will be held on a later date at Trinity Lutheran Church in Las Cruces, NM.

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