Jo Ann Minter's Obituary
Jo Ann Minter (nee Wright) passed away on Monday, October 5, 2015, her seventy-third birthday. She was many things: wife, mother, grandmother, retired Director of Computer programming with the Quik Trip Corporation and Iris grower extraordinaire, just to name a few.Jo Ann was born in 1942 in Pawhuska, Oklahoma, but later relocated with her parents to Hobbs, NM, where she graduated from Hobbs High School, and also met and married Roy Wayne Minter on Septebmer 20, 1961. In Hobbs, Jo Ann and Roy were blessed with daughter Suzanne Rae and son Stephen Don.The family relocated to Broken Arrow, OK in 1971 for Roy’s career with General Telephone, and it was there that Jo Ann found a calling as a computer programmer and manager for Quik Trip Corporation from 1981 to 2003. She attended Tulsa Community College, and she is credited with helping design programs for the company’s Belton, MO Quik’n Tasty facility. With her family, Jo Ann was an avid outdoors woman, enjoying boating, fishing, and horseback riding.Jo Ann and Roy retired to Claremore, OK in 2006. She remained active in the Tulsa Iris Society, serving as an accredited judge. After Roy’s passing in 2010, she relocated to be nearer to her grandchildren. There she joined the Iris Society of the Ozarks and continued to garden with distinction.Jo Ann is preceded in death b her husband Roy Wayne, and by three brothers, Ray Wright, I. C. Wright, and Roger Wright, and a sister Earline Koons. She is survived by both her children, Stephen and Suzanne; her four grandchildren: Michelle Lankford of Van Buren, AR. Michael, Maranda and Matthew Minter of Springfield, MO; and two great-grandchildren: Skylen Rose Taylor of Springfield, MO and Benjamin Parker Lankford of Van Buren, AR. and surviving siblings Eddie Wright, Joyce Helton, and Joe Wright.The family will receive friends, 4:00 p.m. ~ 8:00 p.m., Thursday, October 8, 2015, Floral Haven Funeral Home Visitation Room, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.Services will be held , Friday, October 9, 2015, at Floral Haven Funeral Home Chapel.The family asks that in lieu of flowers, donations be made to the Tulsa Iris Society and the American Cancer Society.
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