Mildred Dickey Revels, born Mildred Winona Myers in February of 1922 in San Diego, California, passed away in October of 2020, in Sierra Vista, Arizona, at age 98.
Mildred retired as a computer programmer for the Department of the Navy in approximately 1972. She loved traveling, rockhounding, jewelry making, as well as square & round dancing. She was formerly an active member and officer of multiple dancing groups in the Tucson area, such as the Western Whirlers, Merry Mixers, and Square and Round Dance Association of Southern Arizona. She would often comment, in recent years, how much she missed dancing. Mildred was an avid seamstress who loved to make her own patterns and design her own clothing. She was artistic and also loved painting.
Mildred is survived by: her brother, Richard E. Barber [Helen]; her daughter, Sue (Dickey) Thede; her grandchildren: Jennifer (Dickey, Madruga) Armstrong [Aaron], Larry (Mullens, Madruga) Pasha [Carolyn], Cheryl (Mullens, Madruga) Schaffer [Anthony], Peter Madruga [Jan], and Vicky (Long) Jobe; her great-grandchildren: Daniel Armstrong, Jonathon Armstrong [Lindsay], Richard Pasha [Stephany], Kellee Pasha, Jamie (Madruga) Cox [Kirt], Sarah Jarvis, Kimberly (Jarvis) Slongwhite [Ethan], Andrew Proud-Madruga, Alec Daley, Aaron Daley, Brook Daley, and Jason Daley; and a great many great-great-grandchildren.
She is preceded in death by her parents: Edith Evelyn (Walker) Barber and Earl Hobson Myers (estranged); her beloved step-father, Richard William Barber; her sisters: Laverne (Myers) Francesconi [Guy] and Donna (Barber) Turner [Charles]; her brother, Earl Myers Jr.; her daughter, Diane (Dickey) Erickson [Leif]; her grandchildren: Susan (Long) Highhouse [Mallory] and Robert Long.