Published: February 06, 2008 10:33 pm            

JAUNITA WOFFORD

LULA — Services for Jaunita Wofford, 81, Lula, are 10 a.m. Thursday at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, the Revs. Glen Russell, Gene Sluder and Bill Sluder will officiate. Burial will follow Lula Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Wofford died Monday, Feb. 4, 2008, at a McAlester hospital. She was born Sept. 18, 1926, at Stonewall to Clint and Cordie Watson Williams.

She married William Earl Wofford June 4, 1943. He died March 3, 1989.

Mrs. Wofford was a press operator at Remington Arms for many years and was a member of Rocky Point Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include a daughter, Billie “Sis” Russell and husband Glen, Farris; three sons, Harold Ray “Dink” Wofford and wife Brenda, Allen, Gary Dean Wofford, Lula, and Roy Lynn Wofford and wife Dana, McAlester; a brother, Ralph Williams and wife Pheobe, Kansas City, Kan.; two sisters, Jean Davidson and husband Floyd, Moore, and Mary Joyce Gregory, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.; 13 grandchildren, Ross Wofford, Frederick, Tammy Cannon, Lula, Shawn Wofford and wife Shannon, Allen, Chris Wofford and wife Jeannie, Preston, Craig Wofford and wife Jacki, McAlester, Tracey Haggard and husband Eric, Rowlett, Texas, Kerri West and husband Ernie, Francis, Chuck Wofford, Lula, Jamie Wofford, Tulsa, Jana Walley and husband Gerrad, Austin, Texas, Brad Wofford and wife Angela, Allen, Lori Rhoades, Eufaula, and Trent Castleberry, Durant; 18 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, a son, Winford Earl Wofford, a grandson, Keith Alan Wofford, a great grandson, Trey Wofford, a great granddaughter, Hanna Rochell Wofford, a brother, William Williams, and a sister, Marie Gould.

Bearers will be Ross Wofford, Shawn Wofford, Chris Wofford, Craig Wofford, Chuck Wofford, Jamie Wofford, and Brad Wofford.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada

        

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