Published: April 17, 2009 12:31 pm      

4-17-09 obituaries

RUSSELL BLANKENSHIP

CENTER — Services for Russell Earl Blankenship, 31, Center, are 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Pickard Funeral Home Chapel, Stratford. The Rev. Glen Eaves will officiate. Burial follows at McGee Cemetery.

Mr. Blankenship died April 15, 2009, at his home. He was born Mary 4, 1977, at Ada, to Earl and Brenda Harber Blankenship.

He attended school at Stonewall and graduated from Vanoss High School. He worked for Pontotoc County and lived his life in the Stratford and Ada areas. He attended Highway Tabernacle Church.

Survivors include his parents, Earl and Brenda Blankenship, Ada; two brothers, Roger Blankenship, Fittstown, and Rodney Blankenship, Ada.

Bearers are Lewis Whitwell, Wayne Willoughby, Barry Hinkle, John Daniels, Cecil Wainscott and Chris Mathews.

Honorary bearers are Darrell Teel, Carl Wages and Troy Willoughby.

Online condolences may be expressed at www.pickardfuneralhomes. com and www.adaveningnews.com.

Pickard Funeral Home, Stratford



NATHAN HICKS

SULPHUR — Services for Nathan Hicks, 81, Sulphur, are pending with DeArman's Clagg Funeral Home. He died Thursday, April 16, 2009.

DeArman's Clagg Funeral Home



LlOYD STAPP

HENNEPIN — Services for Lloyd Glenn Stapp, 84, Hennepin, are 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, 2009, at First Baptist Church of Davis. Burial follows at Green Hill Cemetery, Davis.

Mr. Stapp died Wednesday, April 15, 2009.

Hale's Funeral Home, Davis



EUNICE TILLERY

ATWOOD — Services for Eunice Berneice Tillery, 87, Atwood, are 10 a.m. Monday at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, the Revs. Glenn Cranfield and Greg Cranfield will officiate. Burial will follow at Allen Cemetery.

Mrs. Tillery died Wednesday, April 15, 2009, at Oklahoma City. She was born Oct. 14, 1921, at DeKalb, Texas to H.A. and Cassie Lewis McDonald.

She lived most of her life in this area and attended Francis schools. Mrs. Tillery was a department store sales clerk and also a homemaker. She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy in Ada and Allen.

She married Virgil Tillery on Sept. 14, 1938. He died June 18, 1982.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda Cranfield and husband David, Atwood, and Janet Corvin, Indianapolis, Ind.; one son, Charles Tillery and wife Kathy, Pickton, Texas; a son-in-law, Dr. Leroy Carpenter, Oklahoma City; four sisters, Irene Ware, Canton, Texas, Louise Hodge, Moore, Melba Garner, Richmond, Mo., and Artie Anderson, Decatur, Ga.; 11 grandchildren; 29 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a son, Virgil Ray Tillery; a daughter, Carol Carpenter; two brothers, Troy McDonald and James McDonald; a sister, Lois Hudson; a granddaughter, Cecelia Berneice Corvin; and a great-grandson, Blake Aaron Cranfield.

Her grandchildren will serve as bearers.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada



BETTY WILSON

TUPELO — Graveside services for Betty Lou Wilson, 80, Tupelo, are 1 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Kiowa Cemetery, officiated by the Rev. Jim Morgan.

Mrs. Wilson died Wednesday April 15, 2009, in Ada. She was born Dec. 2, 1928, in Blocker, Okla., to Jim and Jennie Clay Justice.

She was a member of the Full Gospel Pentecostal Church of God of Coalgate.

She married Coleman Walter Wilson in 1949. Survivors include seven sons, Jimmy Dale Wilson, Tupelo, Coleman “Junior” Wilson, Oklahoma City, Michael Wilson, Tupelo, Glen Wilson and wife Darla, Oklahoma City, Manuel Wilson, Oklahoma City, Terry Wilson, Timmy Wilson and wife Christina, all of Newalla; two daughters, Sheila Herrington and husband Clarence, Mary Wilson, all of Tupelo; brother, Bill Justice, South Dakota; and four sisters, Donnie, Wilma, Marcella and Almeda “Met”; 17 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

She is preceded in death by her husband, Coleman Wilson; parents, Jim and Jennie Justice; sons, Roger Wilson and Harold “Lucky” Wilson.

Bearers will be her grandsons.

Chaney-Harkins Funeral Home, McAlester



WILMA WOOD

WYNNEWOOD — Graveside services for Wilma Ann Wood, 81, Wynnewood, are 10 a.m. Monday at Oaklawn Cemetery, Wynnewood. Ms. Wood died April 16, 2009, at Sulphur.

DeArman Funeral Home, Wynnewood