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'''Ada Belle Parks Mills''' (March 4, 1912 &ndash; September 30, 2001)<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?sn=Mills&fn=Ada&start=40|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010; under pay wall}}</ref> was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] political activist in her native [[Arkansas]].  In 1980, she was the only delegate initially committed to the candidacy for president of former [[Governor]] [[John Connally|John B. Connally, Jr.]], of [[Texas]]. Connally spent some $11 million in his 13-month primary campaign, which ended in withdrawal following his loss to [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] in the [[South Carolina]] [[primary]]. Mrs. Mills received brief national media attention as the "$11 million delegate."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921859,00.html|title=Adieu, Big John|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' [[magazine]], March 24, 1980|date=March 24, 1980|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>​

'''Ada Belle Parks Mills''' (March 4, 1912 &ndash; September 30, 2001)<ref name=ssdi>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi?sn=Mills&fn=Ada&start=40|title=Social Security Death Index|publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010; under pay wall}}</ref> was a [[Republican Party|Republican]] political activist in her native [[Arkansas]].  In 1980, she was the only delegate initially committed to the candidacy for president of former [[Governor]] [[John Connally|John B. Connally Jr.]], of [[Texas]]. Connally spent some $11 million in his 13-month primary campaign, which ended in withdrawal following his loss to [[Ronald W. Reagan]] of [[California]] in the [[South Carolina]] [[primary]]. Mrs. Mills received brief national media attention as the "$11 million delegate."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,921859,00.html|title=Adieu, Big John|publisher=''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' [[magazine]], March 24, 1980|date=March 24, 1980|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>​

==Civic and business activities==

==Civic and business activities==

In 1972, Mills was a delegate to the 1972 [[Republican National Convention]] in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], in which she joined the unanimous Arkansas members in ratifying the re-nomination of the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro T. Agnew|Agnew]] ticket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#24600V0EV|title=Ada Mills|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>

In 1972, Mills was a delegate to the 1972 [[Republican National Convention]] in Miami Beach, [[Florida]], in which she joined the unanimous Arkansas members in ratifying the re-nomination of the [[Richard Nixon|Nixon]]-[[Spiro T. Agnew|Agnew]] ticket.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/mills.html#24600V0EV|title=Ada Mills|publisher=politicalgraveyard.com|accessdate=September 8, 2010}}</ref>

Eight years later in 1980, she committed initially to Nixon's former [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|treasury secretary]], John Connally, before finally joining her Arkansas delegation to support the Reagan-[[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] ticket, which prevailed in Arkansas. The original Arkansas count had been seven for Reagan, four for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Howard Baker]], of [[Tennessee]], two for Bush, five uncommitted, and Mills' backing of Connally. Along with Mills, the Arkansas delegation at the 1980 Republican National Convention, which met in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], included [[U.S. Representative]]s [[John Paul Hammerschmidt]] and Edwin Ruthvin Bethune, Jr., party chairman [[Lynn Lowe]], national committeeman [[Harlan "Bo" Holleman]], and party legal counsel James Burnett.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' February 23, 1980, p. 572; July 12, 1980, p. 1928.</ref><ref>''Arkansas Outlook'' (Republican Party newsletter), March 1979.</ref>

Eight years later in 1980, she committed initially to Nixon's former [[United States Secretary of the Treasury|treasury secretary]], John Connally, before finally joining her Arkansas delegation to support the Reagan-[[George Herbert Walker Bush|Bush]] ticket, which prevailed in Arkansas. The original Arkansas count had been seven for Reagan, four for [[U.S. Senator]] [[Howard Baker]], of [[Tennessee]], two for Bush, five uncommitted, and Mills' backing of Connally. Along with Mills, the Arkansas delegation at the 1980 Republican National Convention, which met in [[Detroit]], [[Michigan]], included [[U.S. Representative]]s [[John Paul Hammerschmidt]] and Edwin Ruthvin Bethune Jr., party chairman [[Lynn Lowe]], national committeeman [[Harlan "Bo" Holleman]], and party legal counsel James Burnett.<ref>''Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report,'' February 23, 1980, p. 572; July 12, 1980, p. 1928.</ref><ref>''Arkansas Outlook'' (Republican Party newsletter), March 1979.</ref>

In 2000, she was awarded the Republican Party's Eagle Award for fifty years of work in the establishment of a two-party system in historically [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state.<ref name=obit/>​

In 2000, she was awarded the Republican Party's Eagle Award for fifty years of work in the establishment of a two-party system in historically [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] state.<ref name=obit/>​

==Death and family==

==Death and family==

Mills died at her Clarksville residence at the age of eighty-nine. She was survived by a son, Jim Pat Mills of Clarksville; two daughters and sons-in-law, Joanie and husband Lee McCleskey of College Station, Texas, and MaryTom (Tommie) Mills Riley-O'Bar and her second husband, Clyde Russell O'Bar (1938-2017). At the time of Ada Mill's death, the O'Bars resided in [[Lubbock]], Texas. When Clyde O'Bar died at the age of seventy-eight, they were living in Rio Rancho, [[New Mexico]]. He is interred at Resthaven Cemetery in Lubbock.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/abqjournal/obituary.aspx?pid=184579893|title=Clyde O'Bar's obituary|publisher=''The Albuquerque Journal,''|date=March 19, 2017|accessdate=August 13, 2019}}</ref>  

Mills died at her Clarksville residence at the age of eighty-nine. She was survived by a son, Jim Pat Mills of Clarksville; two daughters and sons-in-law, Joanie and husband Lee McCleskey of College Station, Texas, and MaryTom (Tommie) Mills Riley-O'Bar and her second husband, Clyde Russell O'Bar (1938–2017). At the time of Ada Mill's death, the O'Bars resided in [[Lubbock]], Texas. When Clyde O'Bar died at the age of seventy-eight, they were living in Rio Rancho, [[New Mexico]]. He is interred at Resthaven Cemetery in Lubbock.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/abqjournal/obituary.aspx?pid=184579893|title=Clyde O'Bar's obituary|publisher=''The Albuquerque Journal,''|date=March 19, 2017|accessdate=August 13, 2019}}</ref>  

Joe and Ada Mills had seven grandchildren and  ten great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> Like his mother, Jim Pat Mills is active in the state Republican Party, having been the Johnson County state committeeman.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725014052/http://www.arkansasgop.org/index.cfm?p=StateRepublicanCommitteeMembersListing|title=State Republican Committee Members Listing |publisher=Arkansasgop.org |accessdate=September 8, 2010 }}</ref>​

Joe and Ada Mills had seven grandchildren and  ten great-grandchildren.<ref name=obit/> Like his mother, Jim Pat Mills is active in the state Republican Party, having been the Johnson County state committeeman.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.arkansasgop.org/index.cfm?p=StateRepublicanCommitteeMembersListing|title=State Republican Committee Members Listing |publisher=Arkansasgop.org |accessdate=September 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725014052/http://www.arkansasgop.org/index.cfm?p=StateRepublicanCommitteeMembersListing|archive-date=2011-07-25 }}</ref>​

Services were held on October 4, 2001, at the Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville with six officiating ministers, including then Arkansas Governor [[Mike Huckabee]]. Joe and Ada Mills are interred at Oakland Cemetery in Clarksville.<ref name=obit/>​

Services were held on October 4, 2001, at the Raymond Munger Memorial Chapel at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville with six officiating ministers, including then Arkansas Governor [[Mike Huckabee]]. Joe and Ada Mills are interred at Oakland Cemetery in Clarksville.<ref name=obit/>​