Margery Ann "Margie, Marge" Wolverton

Margery Ann Wolverton ascended to Heaven on July 31st, 2025. She was born in Omaha,
Nebraska on November 13th, 1930. Her parents were Preston Jones and Jessie T. Jones. She was married to Ivan 'Red Cloud' Wolverton for almost 70 years. Margery, known as Margie or Marge, graduated from the University of Nebraska – Omaha in 1952 with a degree in languages and a minor in art. She was fluent in English, Spanish, French, and German upon graduation. She played the piano, never well by her own admission; but her great talent was in painting. She started off working in oils and later went to acrylics. She loved painting landscapes and horses. Her heroes were cowboys, and the one being Red, became the subject of many of her paintings through the years. She drew and painted him in every cowboy way, inspired by their journeys as she followed him in his cowboying from Oregon to Montana, to Colorado, to Arizona.
Margery was not a good rider, having been bucked off in Montana after their honeymoon. Her shoulder injury would hinder her during her lifetime, but it never lessened her love of horses and working harder than anyone; cleaning harness, repairing bridles, organizing the tackrooms and trailers. She loved horses so much and especially Morgans. She inspired Red to have a breeding program that raised 5 generations of purebreds, used as riding and driving horses in the movies. Margery's passion also led to her massive horse collection, primarily obtained from her love of 'swap-meeting'. She had model horses of every size and type, probably over 1000. She loved education and doing crosswords. Her other passion was books. She loved fantasy and adventure, but her greatest interest was westerns. She probably read more books than most people do in two lifetimes. Her collection included Zane Grey, Max Brand, Will James, Louis Lamour and many others, and was over 2000 books. She was also a very creative and imaginative writer of several published short stories of fantasy and mythical creatures – unicorns, faeries, elfins. Margery loved dogs and had many over her lifetime; including her
beloved collie 'Shawnie', that she won in an essay contest as a child, given by the producers of TV's 'Lassie'.

Margery loved her family and was a great mother. She is preceded in death by her husband, Red, her brother, Bob and her great granddaughter and namesake, Dilynn Margerie Cotton. She is survived by her four children Holly May Wolverton, Tammie Kay Nichols, Kip Lorren
Wolverton, and Wendy Lenore Wolverton. She has 8 grand-children, 18 great-grandchildren, and 6 great-great grandchildren. She is also survived by her nieces Janice Schlieker, Mark Jones, and Karen McNamara. Margery expressed that she wasted her education. But she did not waste her life. She lived close to 95 years of adventure, creativity, freedom, Godly-ness, and beauty. She passed on a legacy of uprightness, conviction, passion, and honor to those family and friends, and future generations who hold her in their hearts eternally.

Margery spent her last two years, happily surrounded by her daughter, Holly, her grandson and his wife and their 3 children in Fredonia, where she got to make her last few stagecoach rides in local parades with Red by her side.

Services for Margery will be held Friday, August 15th at Mosdell Mortuary. There will be a viewing at 3 pm (UT Time), with services to follow. Graveside service will be held at the Fredonia Cemetery afterwards.