L. Juanita (Walters) Powers, 92 of Ardmore, Oklahoma departed this world, as we know it, on Tuesday, December 19, 2006. Juanita, a 40-year Dallas resident, recently moved her home to Ardmore because of ill health and to be near her family.

Services at Greenland Hill United Methodist Church in Dallas. Interment in Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore beside her husband, Roy, and her only son, Dennis M. Greene.

Juanita was an active player in the life of Greenland Hills United Methodist Church, having organized art shows there to help fund some of their mission programs, including 9/11 and school books for third world children. She was an avid painter and produced some 275 oil paintings over a period of about 12 years. She was a student of well respected art instructors, Nancy and Terrie Brown of the Heritage Hut, River Oaks, Fort Worth, Texas, and her paintings hang in offices, homes and chapels from Utah to North Carolina and back to Santa Fe, N.M. Juanita loved to write poetry and won a major award for her poem, "My Mother's Star," plus three certificates for "Poem of the Year," and had been published various times by the International Poetry Society.

Juanita held varied offices working and serving in the Business and Professional Women's Club for some 20 odd years. In Ardmore, Oak Cliff and Dallas, Texas, she was an astute business activist, served as business manager and part-owner of Fashinns, a ladies sportswear manufacturer for 12 years. She owned a children's wear shop, The Peppermint Stick Boutique for 13 years, worked for Foley's at Preston Center for eight more years before retiring to enjoy life and learn ballroom dancing, which she loved. She competed for 12 years and won many blue ribbons.

Juanita came from a large family, the following of whom have preceded her in death: her parents, Thomas J. and Maude M. (Nesler) Walters, sisters, Nora E. Bullock, Dollie M. Gallagher, Daisy C. Walters and Bertha M. Moore and brothers, Robert L. and Jesse A. Walters.

She is survived by two younger sisters, Maxine Moore of Friendswood, Texas, and Kathryn Lane of Anderson, Ind. She also leaves two daughters, Elaine Remy of Ardmore and her family, Angela Porter, Ardmore and Richard Wayne Miller of Hickory, N.C. and their families; Dona Reaser of Delaware, Ohio, and her son Bruce of Dallas; four great-grandchildren four great-great- grandchildren.

Daily Ardmoreite, The (Ardmore, OK) - Sunday, December 31, 2006