Melba LaWanda (Denney) Oglesby was born on February 4, 1934 to Troy and Beatrice (Edwards) Denney in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma in the Garden Grove community. She passed away Monday, January 3 ^rd in Weatherford, Oklahoma.

Melba attended school at Center View, lettered in basketball and graduated as class valedictorian. After school she worked at Wanda Oil Company in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma where she met the love of her life, Guy Harrison Oglesby, Jr., they were married on April 17, 1953 in Hot Springs, Arkansas. G.H. got a job with Phillips Oil Company during the Texas oil boom and they moved to Andrews, Texas until they made their final home in Eakly, Oklahoma in 1967. Melba was a long standing member of the Eakly Methodist Church, she loved to read, stayed involved in her community and spending time with family and friends.

Melba is proceeded in death by her husband, Guy Harrison, Jr.; 2 sons, John Allen and Troy Don; parents; sister Norma Sturmon and husband Kenneth; in-laws Norva Crossgrove, Twila Smith, Rea Gene Oglesby and spouses. She is survived by son, Guy Harrison, III and daughter in-law Cherie of California; 1 daughter in-law, Danna Lawson of Oklahoma; 9 grandchildren Jeff, Amanda, Lyndsay, Jordan, Parker, Cody, Travis, Taylor and Landre; 7 great grandchildren, 1 niece Kenda Earl and husband Rocky of Texas, numerous other nieces and nephews; 2 sister in-laws Gail Gerdeman of Colorado, Kay Williams of Kansas and spouses.