Mildred Oberia Walls daughter of James Leo Walls and Annie Kate Hurtt in West, McLennan Co., Texas. Mildred was a very small infant and said that they put her in the oven as an incubator. She lived in Belton, Bell Co., Texas growing up and also in Mexia, Texas for a short time. She lived in the country with her family, and picked cotton as a child. She finished the 9th grade in school, then quit to go to work to help her family during 1930's Depression.
Her family moved to Sherman in the late 1930's were her father worked as a machinist at the Cotton Mill. Mildred also worked at the cotton mill in Sherman and was a bobbin changer.
She was a beautiful woman, with dark brown eyes and brunette hair, and looked like a movie star, but but was not a center stage person. She was a quiet, reserved lady.
She met Howard Paul Carter son of John Daniel Carter and Lillie Biggerstaff, when he was working for the drug store. She and her sister, Delma and girlfriends would go to the drugstore where he worked as the at the soda fountain, and give him a hard time. They made him bring milkshakes out to their car. She thought he was cute and jokingly told them "He's mine, if I never get him." He was really pretty upset with them. Their first date didn't get off too well either. She had made a date with someone else for the same night, but thought they'd be gone before the other guy came. However Howard just kept talking to her dad and this other fellow shows up, so she went out with him instead. Meanwhile, Howard kept visiting with her dad. It's amazing that he came back again. He persisted and finally got that first date and eventually her hand in marriage.
Howard and Mildred got engaged on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939, and married on April 19, 1941 by the Justice of the Peace in Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas. They were a sweet couple with an ongoing love story. She adored Howard and thought she was the luckiest woman to have such a wonderful man to share her life with. And he adored her. Their love for each other was beautiful. They had a son, a daughter and 3 grandsons.
Mildred was very creative and made pottery, was a good seamstress, loved her home and making it a place of sanctuary for her family and created a warm and loving home for her family, was a loving wife and mother.
Beginning in her 60's, Mildred suffered with Huntington's disease (HD) a neurodegenerative genetic disorder like his mother, sister, Lucy & brother Billy. Her devoted husband Howard, dedicated his life to caring for Mildred in her lengthy battle against Huntington's Disease and when her physical condition deteriorated due to Huntington's Disease, he took care of her, When she got to a point where she could not swallow or eat solid food, by employing an old talent for milkshake making, he made her banana milkshakes which allowed her to remain at the home they both loved. During those years he made thousands of milkshakes. Once when someone said how hard it must have been for him to do this, he said he never minded, that it was a joy for him and he considered it a privilege to be able to do it.
Unfortunately, Mildred suffered a stroke, and was in a full care nursing facility, for few months at the end of her life.
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
Her family moved to Sherman in the late 1930's were her father worked as a machinist at the Cotton Mill. Mildred also worked at the cotton mill in Sherman and was a bobbin changer.
She was a beautiful woman, with dark brown eyes and brunette hair, and looked like a movie star, but but was not a center stage person. She was a quiet, reserved lady.
She met Howard Paul Carter son of John Daniel Carter and Lillie Biggerstaff, when he was working for the drug store. She and her sister, Delma and girlfriends would go to the drugstore where he worked as the at the soda fountain, and give him a hard time. They made him bring milkshakes out to their car. She thought he was cute and jokingly told them "He's mine, if I never get him." He was really pretty upset with them. Their first date didn't get off too well either. She had made a date with someone else for the same night, but thought they'd be gone before the other guy came. However Howard just kept talking to her dad and this other fellow shows up, so she went out with him instead. Meanwhile, Howard kept visiting with her dad. It's amazing that he came back again. He persisted and finally got that first date and eventually her hand in marriage.
Howard and Mildred got engaged on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939, and married on April 19, 1941 by the Justice of the Peace in Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas. They were a sweet couple with an ongoing love story. She adored Howard and thought she was the luckiest woman to have such a wonderful man to share her life with. And he adored her. Their love for each other was beautiful. They had a son, a daughter and 3 grandsons.
Mildred was very creative and made pottery, was a good seamstress, loved her home and making it a place of sanctuary for her family and created a warm and loving home for her family, was a loving wife and mother.
Beginning in her 60's, Mildred suffered with Huntington's disease (HD) a neurodegenerative genetic disorder like his mother, sister, Lucy & brother Billy. Her devoted husband Howard, dedicated his life to caring for Mildred in her lengthy battle against Huntington's Disease and when her physical condition deteriorated due to Huntington's Disease, he took care of her, When she got to a point where she could not swallow or eat solid food, by employing an old talent for milkshake making, he made her banana milkshakes which allowed her to remain at the home they both loved. During those years he made thousands of milkshakes. Once when someone said how hard it must have been for him to do this, he said he never minded, that it was a joy for him and he considered it a privilege to be able to do it.
Unfortunately, Mildred suffered a stroke, and was in a full care nursing facility, for few months at the end of her life.
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
Mildred Oberia Walls daughter of James Leo Walls and Annie Kate Hurtt in West, McLennan Co., Texas. Mildred was a very small infant and said that they put her in the oven as an incubator. She lived in Belton, Bell Co., Texas growing up and also in Mexia, Texas for a short time. She lived in the country with her family, and picked cotton as a child. She finished the 9th grade in school, then quit to go to work to help her family during 1930's Depression.
Her family moved to Sherman in the late 1930's were her father worked as a machinist at the Cotton Mill. Mildred also worked at the cotton mill in Sherman and was a bobbin changer.
She was a beautiful woman, with dark brown eyes and brunette hair, and looked like a movie star, but but was not a center stage person. She was a quiet, reserved lady.
She met Howard Paul Carter son of John Daniel Carter and Lillie Biggerstaff, when he was working for the drug store. She and her sister, Delma and girlfriends would go to the drugstore where he worked as the at the soda fountain, and give him a hard time. They made him bring milkshakes out to their car. She thought he was cute and jokingly told them "He's mine, if I never get him." He was really pretty upset with them. Their first date didn't get off too well either. She had made a date with someone else for the same night, but thought they'd be gone before the other guy came. However Howard just kept talking to her dad and this other fellow shows up, so she went out with him instead. Meanwhile, Howard kept visiting with her dad. It's amazing that he came back again. He persisted and finally got that first date and eventually her hand in marriage.
Howard and Mildred got engaged on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939, and married on April 19, 1941 by the Justice of the Peace in Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas. They were a sweet couple with an ongoing love story. She adored Howard and thought she was the luckiest woman to have such a wonderful man to share her life with. And he adored her. Their love for each other was beautiful. They had a son, a daughter and 3 grandsons.
Mildred was very creative and made pottery, was a good seamstress, loved her home and making it a place of sanctuary for her family and created a warm and loving home for her family, was a loving wife and mother.
Beginning in her 60's, Mildred suffered with Huntington's disease (HD) a neurodegenerative genetic disorder like his mother, sister, Lucy & brother Billy. Her devoted husband Howard, dedicated his life to caring for Mildred in her lengthy battle against Huntington's Disease and when her physical condition deteriorated due to Huntington's Disease, he took care of her, When she got to a point where she could not swallow or eat solid food, by employing an old talent for milkshake making, he made her banana milkshakes which allowed her to remain at the home they both loved. During those years he made thousands of milkshakes. Once when someone said how hard it must have been for him to do this, he said he never minded, that it was a joy for him and he considered it a privilege to be able to do it.
Unfortunately, Mildred suffered a stroke, and was in a full care nursing facility, for few months at the end of her life.
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
Her family moved to Sherman in the late 1930's were her father worked as a machinist at the Cotton Mill. Mildred also worked at the cotton mill in Sherman and was a bobbin changer.
She was a beautiful woman, with dark brown eyes and brunette hair, and looked like a movie star, but but was not a center stage person. She was a quiet, reserved lady.
She met Howard Paul Carter son of John Daniel Carter and Lillie Biggerstaff, when he was working for the drug store. She and her sister, Delma and girlfriends would go to the drugstore where he worked as the at the soda fountain, and give him a hard time. They made him bring milkshakes out to their car. She thought he was cute and jokingly told them "He's mine, if I never get him." He was really pretty upset with them. Their first date didn't get off too well either. She had made a date with someone else for the same night, but thought they'd be gone before the other guy came. However Howard just kept talking to her dad and this other fellow shows up, so she went out with him instead. Meanwhile, Howard kept visiting with her dad. It's amazing that he came back again. He persisted and finally got that first date and eventually her hand in marriage.
Howard and Mildred got engaged on Christmas Day, Dec. 25, 1939, and married on April 19, 1941 by the Justice of the Peace in Sherman, Grayson Co., Texas. They were a sweet couple with an ongoing love story. She adored Howard and thought she was the luckiest woman to have such a wonderful man to share her life with. And he adored her. Their love for each other was beautiful. They had a son, a daughter and 3 grandsons.
Mildred was very creative and made pottery, was a good seamstress, loved her home and making it a place of sanctuary for her family and created a warm and loving home for her family, was a loving wife and mother.
Beginning in her 60's, Mildred suffered with Huntington's disease (HD) a neurodegenerative genetic disorder like his mother, sister, Lucy & brother Billy. Her devoted husband Howard, dedicated his life to caring for Mildred in her lengthy battle against Huntington's Disease and when her physical condition deteriorated due to Huntington's Disease, he took care of her, When she got to a point where she could not swallow or eat solid food, by employing an old talent for milkshake making, he made her banana milkshakes which allowed her to remain at the home they both loved. During those years he made thousands of milkshakes. Once when someone said how hard it must have been for him to do this, he said he never minded, that it was a joy for him and he considered it a privilege to be able to do it.
Unfortunately, Mildred suffered a stroke, and was in a full care nursing facility, for few months at the end of her life.
Military Information: PFC, US ARMY
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