Carla Sue Darden was born on July 4, 1948 in Tulsa Oklahoma the second of six children born to Carl and Dorothy Darden.

Sue, as she preferred to be called lived and grew up in the Berryhill community southwest of Tulsa and attended the Berryhill schools from which she graduated in 1966. Growing up she helped her grand parents in their restaurant, and at the Kip’s Big Boy diner on 11th street in Tulsa. After graduating high school she got a job in the cafe at the Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital and later moved into the kitchen setting up patient meals which she left after ten years of service after marrying Ronald Buck on March 25, 1977.

She moved to Ponca City with her husband. They lived on North Lake street for the next forty years rearing two daughters, Sarah Frances and Paula Mae. While her children were young she was a stay at home mom but later worked for the Child Development Center as the kids grew.

By the time her children were school age she went to work for the Ponca City Schools as a Lunch-lady and continued there for twenty years. She also worked for several restaurants including Taco Bell and Arby’s in the summers.

Sue also found time to take a few classes at Northern Okla.

College.

Sue had several hobbies, in the early years she enjoyed gardening, bowling, cooking and sewing and made several of the kid’s clothes and was active in her children’s activities,whether it was camping with the girl scouts or helping with the tourette camp. She was always stirring up a pot of something or baking a cake or a pie and developed several “cookbooks” derived from the recipes she got from her grand mother and other folks she also enjoyed doing genealogy and crocheting dishcloths.

Her life long passion was shopping, if she didn’t coin the phrase “shop ‘till you drop” she should have. Having gone with Paul and Mickey Brown one year on the 127 Corridor garage sale, she was always up for a good shopping spree, she may not purchase much but loved to shop.

Sue always enjoyed traveling. After she retired she bought a 25 foot class “C “motor home. One day in September of 2012 when Ron came home she announced “You’re taking me to see Maureen in Canada and we are going on the Fall Foliage Tour”, she had that motor home packed and gassed up and the next day Ron and her left. They spent the rest of September, October ,and November traveling through Canada and New England and down the East coast. Stopping along the way to visit and climb every Lighthouse they could get to. She also liked lighthouses. Following that trip they met some friends at Mustang Island, Corpus Christy Texas in January of 2013 and wintered all over southeast Texas and traveled all over Texas during the winter of 2014. September of 2014 found Sue in Baltimore for the bicentennial celebration at Fort McHenry. The winter of 2015 found her moose-hopping all over Florida, and taking a cruise to the Bahamas. She took her father to Hawaii for the 75th anniversary of Pearl Harbor celebration in December 2016.

She became ill in November of 2017 and could never quite recover and took a turn for the worse in December of 2018.

Sue went to be with her Savior on September 15, 2019 at the Villa Christy Village in Ponca City after several lengthy hospital stays She was preceded in death by her parents Carl and Dorothy, her elder brother David and an infant brother Kenneth. Sue is survived by her husband Ron, of the home, her two daughters, Sarah Gilmore and Paula Buck, both of Ponca City, and a grandson, Kalob Ware, a granddaughter, Sarana Gilmore, two step grandsons Erin and Allen Gilmore and three great grandchildren two sisters Gayla and Phyllis of Owasso, Okla, and a brother Keith of Sapulpa, Okla. And a host of nieces, nephews, and cousins In lieu of flowers please make donations to: Fostering Sweet Dreams % Kristy Payne

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