Anna Mildred Griffin

Anna Mildred Griffin

            Mildred Griffin age 91 of Crestview, passed away on Friday, November 25, 2016, at her home.  She was born in Chipley, Fl., on December 31, 1924, to Oswald and Eva May Gilbert.  Mildred graduated from Chipley High School and moved with her family to Crestview at age 21. She worked for the Okaloosa County Tax Collectors Office for 23 years before retiring.  Mildred was a member of the First United Methodist Church.  She loved to fish, dance, bowl, and loved to garden.  Most of all she loved to cook and would feed anyone who came in her back door.  Mildred loved her family, but the joy of her life was her grandchildren.  She is preceded in death by her husband Leroy Griffin, her son Dennis Griffin, and 7 brothers and sisters.

            Survivors include her children Rhonda Staff and her husband Larry, Judy Jenkins and her husband Jimmy, daughter in law Janis Griffin; her precious grandchildren: Tracy Long, Denny Griffin, Cindy Staff, Jeffery Long, Karla Livingston, Larry Staff, and Kristin Labruno; along with her 13 great grandchildren and 2 great great-grandchildren.

            The celebration of Mildred’s life will be on Friday, December 2, 2016, at 2:00 p.m. at the Chapel of Whitehurst-Powell Funeral Home with burial to follow in the Liveoak Park Memorial Cemetery.  A time of visitation with the family will begin at 1:00 p.m.

Arrangements are entrusted to Whitehurst Powell Funeral Home in Crestview.  Guest book and condolences are available online at www.whitehurstpowellfuneralhome.com

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