Published: August 24, 2009 10:15 am      

8-24-09 obituaries

CEPHUS LAWSON

STRATFORD — Services for Cephus Edgar Lawson, 97, Stratford, are 2 p.m. Tuesday at Free Will Baptist Church of Stratford. Burial follows at Mt. Olivet Cemetery, Pauls Valley.

Mr. Lawson died Aug. 23, 2009.

Pickard Funeral Home, Stratford



PRISCILLA JOHNSON

HARVEST, Ala — Graveside services for Priscilla Christine Lindley Whitaker Mammen Johnson, 90, Harvest, Ala., are 2 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 29, 2009, at Calvin Cemetery Chapel, Calvin, Okla. She died Aug. 16, 2009.

Memorial donations may be made to Hospice Family Care, 3304 W. Mill Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805.

McConnell Funeral Home, Athens, Ala., and Fisher Funeral Home, Holdenville, Okla.



BERNIECE TURNER

ADA— Services for Lorene Berniece Turner, 88, Ada, are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, the Rev. Ray Talbott will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Turner died Sunday, Aug. 23, 2009, at a local nursing home. She was born Jan. 4, 1921, near Vanoss to Pleas and Lou Stidham Richardson.

She attended Vanoss school. Mrs. Turner was a homemaker and a long time member of Oak Avenue Baptist Church.

She married J.W. Turner on Feb. 14, 1942, in Ada.

Survivors include her husband, J.W. Turner, of the home; a son, John Turner and wife Glenda, Ada; three daughters, Jean Crockett and husband Ben, Ripley, Christine Frantz and husband Mike, Boerne, Texas, and Lorene Perkins and husband Ed, Atwood; a sister, Mary Lou Covert, Oklahoma City; grandchildren, Carol and Clay Briegge, Perry, Alan and Jennifer Crockett, Ardmore, Mark and Karen Crockett, Denton, Texas, Amy and Devon Lambert, San Antonio, Texas, Melissa Frantz, Boerne, Texas, Rebekah and Spencer Ulm, Baltimore, Md., and Edmon Perkins, Mt. Rainier, Md; great-grandchildren, Austin Allen, Perry, Katylyn and Ashyln Briegge, Perry, Coleton, Kaylyn and Tanner Crockett, Ardmore, and Caleb, Maggie and Creed Crockett, Denton, Texas.

She was preceded in death by her siblings, Marie Alford, Flora Shumard, Helen Richardson, Florence Webb, Ruby Gurley, Sue Johnson, Clark Richardson, P.J. Richardson, Joe Richardson and Percy Richardson.

Bearers will be John Turner Jr., Ed Perkins, Ben Crockett, Mike Frantz, Alan Crockett, Mark Crockett, Clay Briegge, Spencer Ulm, and Edmon Perkins.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada