Published: May 12, 2009 11:00 am      

5-12-09 obituaries

KATHLEEN ALFORD

ADA — Services for Lottie Kathleen Alford, 86, Ada, are 2 p.m. Wednesday at First Baptist Church, the Rev. John Haynes, Dr. Pat Kilby and the Rev. Harold Ware will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.

Mrs. Alford died Sunday, May 10, 2009, at her home. She was born May 1, 1923, in the Pecan Grove Community, south of Ada to Jesse Floyd and Ivory Jewel Elmore Hisaw.

She lived in the Ada area all her life and graduated from Latta High School in 1941.

She married Paul R. Alford Sept. 27, 1941, at Coalgate. He died Aug. 6, 2006.

Mrs. Alford was a homemaker and a longtime active member of the First Baptist Church. She served for many years as the children’s and pre-school director and Sunday school teacher at Oak Avenue Baptist Church.

Survivors include two daughters, Paula Wilfong and her husband John, Ada, and Pamla Armstrong and her husband Greg, Ada; four grandchildren, Anslea Steele and husband Eric, Edmond, Erin Wilfong and wife Mackenzie, Kansas City, Mo., Jeremy Armstrong, Ada, and Shane Armstrong and wife Megan, Prairie Village, Kan.; and three great-grandchildren, Braden Paul Steele, Edmond, Abby Kate Steele, Edmond, and Carter Scott Wilfong, Kansas City, Mo.

She was preceded in death by her husband, her parents, Floyd and Jewel Hisaw, a sister, June Mapes, and a brother, Jesse Floyd Hisaw.

Bearers will be her sons-in-law, grandsons, and great-grandson.

The family says those who wish may make memorials to the First Baptist Church, 521 S. Broadway, Ada, OK 74820 or the charity of their choice.

Condolences may be expressed at www.adaeveningnews.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada



COTTON WARTCHOW

ROFF — Funeral service for Leroy “Cotton” Wartchow, 75, Roff, is pending with Smith-Phillips Funeral Home. He died Monday, May 11, 2009, in Roff.

Smith-Phillips Funeral Service, Ada



MARY CAIN

SULPHUR — Services for Mary E. Cain, 68, Sulphur, are 1 p.m. Thursday, May 14, 2009, at First Baptist Church. Burial follows at Oaklawn Cemetery, Sulphur

DeArman's Clagg Funeral Home, Sulphur



DON CARPENTER SR.

DURANT — Services for Don Harold Carpenter Sr., 76, Durant, are 2 p.m. Wednesday, May 13, at First Baptist Church in Durant.

He died May 9, 2009.

Brown's Funeral Service, Durant