Mildred Fourt Melton, 99, was born Oct. 1, 1919, and reared in the Ozarks on a Texas County, Mo., farm her great-grandfather had homesteaded 81 years earlier. The fourth of six children of R.W. and Goldie Todd Fourt, she attended the Houston, Mo., school system all 12 years of her public schooling. In 1938, she graduated from Houston High School, where she had participated in a variety of activities, ranging from chorus, school plays, operettas and the yearbook staff to volleyball and cheerleading.
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