She was born Sept. 10, 1923, in Akins, Okla., to Walter and Pink Annie (Emberton) Green. She grew up and attended school in Oklahoma. As a young woman, she moved to Kansas, where she lived in Parsons.
On Dec. 9, 1944, she married Eugene E. Lockwood in Erie. He was deployed shortly after marriage. Following his discharge from the U.S. Army during World War II, they lived in various towns in Kansas while he worked construction. In the 1960s they returned to Parsons, where she had lived since.
She was a member of First Assembly of God Church in Parsons. In earlier years, she loved flower gardening, fishing and attending garage sales. She especially enjoyed spending time with her family and friends.
Survivors include a son, Robert Lockwood and his friend, Mary Burris, of Parsons; three daughters, Darlene Jump and her husband, Thomas Mac, of Missouri City, Texas, Roberta Sharp of Parsons and Sandy Shears and her husband, B.J., of Altamont; eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; a brother, Dale Green and his wife, Dottie, of Wichita; and two sisters, Mamie Claphan and Reba Kester, both of Stilwell, Okla.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Eugene Lockwood, on Jan. 9, 1967; two brothers; two sisters; an infant grandson, Thomas Mac Jump II; and a granddaughter, Sabrina Burnett.
The service will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Forbes-Hoffman Funeral Home in Parsons. Burial will be in Memorial Lawn Cemetery in Parsons. The family will receive friends from 7 to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Online condolences may be left at www.forbeshoffman.com.
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