Mildred Rebecca Mizner was born August 8, 1938 to Rodney Spaulding Mizner and Virginia Florence Palm-Eckert Mizner.
In the loving words of her mother, Virgina, whom she cared for many years:
Mildred attended elementary school in a one-room school, Concord, and graduated from Miami R-1 High School in 1956. Two weeks after high school graduation, she began working for Hallmark in Kansas City and continued as a dedicated employee for 37 1/2 years. She was sent to train other workers in Carrolton, Missouri.
Mildred’s soft voice and kind ways won her many friends of all ages. To older people, she was always respectful, caring and patient. She enjoyed entering into games and going on little shopping sprees with younger family members and friends. She truly thought of other people before herself. She enjoyed sports, especially baseball and basketball. She was always a neat housekeeper, but her greatest joy was working outdoors.
As a young girl, she became a Christian and was baptized at Vacation Bible School. For most of her life, she attended the Butler Assembly of God Church. Upon Virginia’s passing, the family home was purchased by Immanuel Baptist Church of Butler, where prayer group meetings are now held.
Mildred is survived by her nephew and nieces, Randi Mizner, Staci Mizner Smith and Shani Mizner Kroll, her Uncle J.L. Eckert and wife, Kathleen, of Butler, and extended family. She was preceded in death by her parents and brother, Virgil Norman Mizner, and her nephew, Robbi Lee Mizner.
