Published: July 02, 2008 11:23 am            

7-2-08 obituaries

JEWEL ADAMS

FRANCIS — Services for Jewel Adams, 82, Francis, are 2 p.m. Thursday at Faith Assembly of God Church in Ada. Burial follows at Highland Cemetery, Stonewall. Officiating will be Kenny Morrison and assisting will be the Rev. Greg Pollard.

Mrs. Adams died Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at an Ada nursing home. She was born Jan. 23, 1926, in Three Sands, Okla., to W.W. “Bill” and Bessie Elam Whittington.

She married Walter Leon Adams Dec. 22, 1945, at Jesse, Okla. He died Jan. 22, 1977.

Mrs. Adams attended Buffalo Valley and Jesse schools. She was a longtime resident of Franics and a cook for many years at Francis School. She was a member of Faith Assembly of God Church in Ada and a homemaker.

Survivors include her son Sammy Adams, Tupelo; two daughters, Frances Phillips and her husband Derrell, Francis, and Glenda Nickerson and her husband Doc, Oakman; two brothers, Everett “Huck” Whittington, Stonewall, and Curtis Whittington, Ada; five sisters, Billie Kellogg, Francis, Melba Wilson,?McAlester, Patty Sanders, Ada, Sybal Prince, Ada, and Carolyn Selby, Lovington,?N.M.; six grandchildren, Lisa Morrison, Jana Diehm, Brent Phillips, Lesli Gore, Larame Adams; 10 great-grandchildren, Taylor Morrison, Ashlyn Morrison, Kyndal Diehm, Logan Diehm, Susann Phillips, Hunter Pinley, Bailey Pinley, Talen Sims, Austin Adams and Ethan Adams.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter Leon Adams; parents, W.W. “Bill” and Bessie Whittington; one sister, Bernice Sanders; a brother, Charles Whittington; and a grandson, Justin Adams.

Bearers are Larame Adams, Brent Phillips, Ron Higgs, Don?Higgs, Curtis Blevins and Kent Blevins.

Smith-Phillips Funeral Home, Ada



BARBARA CRAWFORD

CHICKASHA — Services for Barbara Ann Crawford, 54, Chickasha, are 11 a.m. Thursday, July 3, at Bible Baptist Church in Chickasha. Burial follows at Rose Hill Cemetery in Chickasha.

Ms. Crawford died Sunday, June 29, 2008, in Oklahoma City.

DeArman’s Clagg Funeral Home, Sulphur



RUBY SEXTON

KONAWA — Services for Ruby Sexton, 89, Konawa, are 2 p.m. Thursday at Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel, Konawa. Burial follows at Konawa Cemetery.

Mrs. Sexton died Tuesday, July 1, 2008, at Ada.

Swearingen Funeral Home, Ada



JIM FARRIS

COALGATE — Services for James “Jim” Allen Farris, 65, Coalgate, are 2 p.m. Thursday at Brown’s Funeral Service Chapel. Burial follows at McCarty Cemetery.

Mr. Farris died July 1, 2008.

Brown’s Funeral Service, Coalgate

        

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