Service today for Melba Ruth Price Loftis

Melba Ruth Price Loftis was born on August 21, 1935 in Wetumka, Oklahoma, to Ernest and Beatrice (Brooks) Price, and passed from this life to her heavenly reward on November 2, 2022. She grew up on a farm south of Wetumka. As a farm girl, she had regular chores to do, including milking the family’s cows every morning and evening, every single day. When Melba was eight, her only sibling, Mildred, was born. Around the age of ten, Melba gave her heart to Jesus, and lived for him the rest of her life. At age thirteen, she started sitting next to a boy named Robert at church. He would be the only boy she ever dated. In high school, Melba was active in school plays, editor of the yearbook, and a class officer. She graduated as Valedictorian of her class at Moss School in 1953. Following graduation, she took some business classes in Oklahoma City. On September 10, 1953, three weeks after her 18th birthday, she married her one-and-only boyfriend, Robert Loftis, at her parents’ home.