She was born on June 3, 1955, in New Haven, Conn., to Harold and Louva (Norton) Mullins. She grew up in Caney and attended Caney High School.
She graduated from truck driving school in Fort Scott. She was working as a cook at Medicalodge in Coffeyville.
She married Charles Jackson. They later divorced. On Feb. 14, 1995, she married Larry Leedy in Neodesha. He survives of the home.
Other survivors include two daughters, Cheryl Jackson and Lori Zamora, both of Bartlesville, Okla.; four stepsons, Larry Leedy Jr. of Wyoming, Duane Leedy and David Leedy, both of Dyersburg, Tenn., and Darron Leedy of Hernando, Miss.; eight grandchildren; four stepgrandchildren; a brother, Richard Patterson of Merritt Island, Fla.; and three sisters, Bea Hammer of Altamont, Lora Perry of Nowata, Okla., and Betty Kuehne of Neodesha.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Christ Church in Neodesha. Burial will follow in Neodesha Cemetery.
Memorials are suggested to Bartlesville Cancer Center and can be left at Potts Chapel in Caney.


