Loretta Mae (Bohannan) Darling, 84 of Cleveland, OK passed away in Tulsa on Friday December 20, 2024.

Memorial services will be held in the Jim Groesbeck Memorial Chapel of the Mobley-Groesbeck Funeral Service on Monday January 6, 2025, at 10:00 a.m. and Interment services held in Ft. Gibson National Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. that afternoon. The funeral service may be viewed live at https://webcast.funeralvue.com/events/viewer/108192

Loretta was born on December 2, 1940, in Granola, KS to Arlis Ray and Gladys Lee (Schul) Bohannan. She graduated from Wichita East High School and began her working career. She married Werner Peper while living in Wichita Kansas and they moved to Edmond, OK in 1971, he passed away in 1975.

She married Jerry Lee Darling on March 16, 1984, in Miami, OK and made their home in Sand Springs, where she worked for and retired from AAON air conditioner manufacturing company. They moved to rural Cleveland, OK over 20 years ago. Loretta loved fishing, baking, thrifting and stopping in to play at the local casino! Her greatest passion was quilting Nanny Blankets for her girls, grandkids and friends.

Loretta is remembered as a loving mother, wife, sister, grandmother, and great grandmother.

She is survived by her husband of 40 years, Jerry; four daughters and their husbands, Tammy Rowland (Paul), Diane Nowak (Ray), Vicki Williams (Shannon), Margret Darling; brother, Jerry Bohannan (Carol); sister, Darlene Fees; 13 grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren and 1 great great grandchild; and a host of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.