- Date Of Birth: December 2, 1921
- Date Of Death: December 20, 2015
- State: Texas
December 2, 1921 – December 20, 2015
Mildred Mayes Wyatt passed away on December 20, 2015 at the age of 94 years. She was born in Flatonia, Texas on December 2, 1921. She was a long time resident of San Antonio, Texas where she lived with her parents on the Southside. Mildred and her family, in later years, were residents while her husband was stationed at Kelly, Lackland, and Randolph Air Force Bases and her youngest daughter, Amy Ruth Wyatt was born at Fort Sam Houston. She attended Highland Park Elementary, Page, and Brackenridge High Schools. Mildred was a National Honor Society Member, Purple Jacket Cheerleader, and R.O.T.C Sponsor. She met and eventually married her high school sweetheart, James Leslie Wyatt, Jr. on October 16, 1942. After he enlisted in the U.S. Army Medical Service, she moved with him to Dallas, Texas when he entered Baylor University Dental College. She was a great help to him and encouraged him when his studies were difficult. She was employed by the A.H. Belo Company to work for the Dallas Morning News as a bookkeeper. Her skills with numbers were to be a great asset to her family all her married life. She enjoyed keeping the family books. During her husband’s senior year of dental school, she had her first child, a baby boy. After graduation, the family moved to Mason, Texas where Dr. Wyatt established a successful dental practice. During this time, she had two daughters who were born at the Keidel Memorial Hospital in Fredericksburg, Texas with her husband assisting the physician in their delivery. Since he had been educated by the U.S. Army during WW II and there was an acute shortage of physicians and dentists after the war, he was pressured by the War Department to return to active duty. As a result, the couple decided he should take the examination to become a regular Dental Officer and he did so entering the U.S. Air Force as a First Lieutenant. His first assignment was to Bergstrom A.F. Base in Austin, Texas. One year later, he left with his hospital unit to South Korea and she was left alone for a year until he and his unit returned. Mildred was an outstanding military wife. Through fourteen moves (two of them overseas unaccompanied by her husband) over 33 years, she cheerfully endured the disruptions and hardships without complaints, smiling through, helping her husband move up in rank and her children to become well educated, useful, accomplished people. After her husband’s retirement after 33 years in the Air Force, Mildred moved to Boerne, Texas where she and her husband bought property and built a home. Later, they bought a 100 year old house at 265 N. Main and established a Merle Norman cosmetic studio and women’s clothing store called Aunt Mildred’s Lingerie in that building. They sold Merle Norman products and women’s clothing that they obtained at the Dallas Trade Market. After several successful years, health problems led to her retirement.Mildred Wyatt was preceded in death by a precious baby daughter, Mary Jane, her parents, Harry and Myrtle Mayes, two brothers, Robert and Wendall, sisters, Elaine Thayer, Lorraine Herndon, Louise Scott, and Mary Colvin. She is survived by her husband, Jim, four children and their wives and husbands, James Leslie Wyatt, III and Jeanne, Sarah Layman and Jim, Judith Ann Woodard and David, Amy Ruth McFee and John, and by eleven grandchildren, and nine great grandchildren.Mildred and her husband Jim celebrated seventy-three years of married life together. Both of them and their children are dedicated Christians. In the Holy Bible, Proverbs 31:10, describes a worthy woman. Mildred Mayes Wyatt exemplified that description.
