Iva Lorine Caudle, the oldest of five children, was born on October 5, 1924, on the family farm in Logan County Oklahoma to Wilmer Walter and Bessie Lafern Filtz. She attended the Welcome School in Logan County until the fifth grade. She then attended Potter School in the sixth grade and went to school in Orlando for the seventh grade until she graduated in 1943. In high school, Iva played basketball and was the all-state guard for the State of Oklahoma. She played the base drum in the high school band and was vice president of her senior class. After graduation, Iva moved to Bella Vista, California, and worked for Arc Rod Corporation. She then took a job as a mail order clerk for the United States Postal Service. In April of 1945, Joe sent Iva a telegram telling her he was returning from the service and asking her to meet him in Orlando, Oklahoma. Iva took a train to Orlando and married Joe Milton Caudle on April 28, 1945. Joe and Iva’s families had known each other all of their lives – Joe had even taught Iva to walk! Joe bought a new Studebaker and they drove back to California. Iva continued to work until she was pregnant with Joe Milton Jr., her first child. Joe worked for Tidwater Oil Company; but he and Iva would also buy houses and renovate them, always selling for a profit. Joe also did body and fender work and Iva was always by his side sanding the cars for Joe to paint. In September of 1955, the family moved to Tulsa, Oklahoma. In May of 1955, Iva was baptized at the Eleventh Street Baptist Church. In 1977 Iva designed the plans for the house that Joe and Iva built in Owasso. Iva had various jobs from time to time, but most of her married life she did not work outside the home; that didn’t mean she wasn’t busy. Some of her many projects included building a closet and wall, hanging sheetrock, laying tile, painting, siding and roofing a house. She was an excellent seamstress and was offered a scholarship to college out of high school to design clothes. She frequently sewed clothes for herself and Barbara. Iva also did oil paintings. She managed Scotty’s Donuts in Tulsa for two years and then in 1969 she opened her own cafe, Caudle’s Coffee Cup, her specialty being homemade biscuits and gravy. Iva loved to garden and canned the fruits and vegetables from the garden. When she and Joe moved to a town lot in Owasso, she dug out the shrubs and enlarged the area and continued to garden. In 2008 Iva had a major bleed and moved in with Barbara and Art.
Iva is survived by her daughter Barbara and son-in-law Arthur Munger, granddaughter Kimberly Dawson and husband Gabriel Dawson, grandsons Joshua Munger and wife Amy, Marcus Munger and wife Miranda, step grandson Randy Munger and wife Kimberly, great grandchildren Jadyn Dawson, Sean Dawson, Wendell Munger and Clayton Munger. Iva was preceded in death by her parents, husband Joe Caudle, son Joe Caudle Jr. and brother Harlan Filtz.
Visitation will be held from 4:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m., Thursday, June 9, 2016 at Mowery Funeral Service in Owasso. Funeral services will be held 11:00 a.m., Friday, June 10, 2016, at Central Baptist Church in Owasso with Pastor Mike Frantz officiating. Serving as casket bearers will be Joshua Munger, Marcus Munger, Gabriel Dawson, Darren Jerome, Robert Filtz and Kris Ledford. Graveside services and interment will be held at 2:30 p.m., Friday, June 10, 2016, at Grace Hill Cemetery, Perry, Oklahoma, with Pastor Sam Jerome officiating. Arrangements and services were entrusted to Mowery Funeral Service of Owasso.
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