Published: September 16, 2009 11:27 am      

9-16-09 obituaries

JAMIE LEWIS

STONEWALL — Funeral services for James Floyd “Jamie” Lewis, 27, Stonewall, will be 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, at the Chickasaw Community Center in Ada. Burial follows at Thomas Family Cemetery near Jesse. Wake service will be 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 17, 2009, at his parent’s house in Ada. Officiating will be the Rev. Osborne Roberts.

Mr. Lewis died Sunday, Sept. 13, 2009, at Carl Albert Indian Hospital in Ada. He was born May 11, 1982, in Ada to Lloyd Kilcrease Sr. and Melissa Lewis Kilcrease.

Mr. Lewis was a lifelong resident of the Ada area. He worked for the Chickasaw Nation in the CDI Department as a maintenance technician supervisor. He also was a member of the Chickasaw Nation Dance Troop.

Mr. Lewis is survived by his parents: Lloyd and Melissa Lewis Kilcrease Sr., Ada; two brothers: Lloyd Kilcrease Jr. and his wife Maria Christina and Micco Kilcrease all of Ada; a sister: Maneetah Kilcrease, Ada; maternal grandmother, Leo Belle “Perch” Thomas; one niece, Talina Kilcrease; and one nephew, Lloyd Kilcrease III.

He was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather, James Floyd Lewis; paternal grandfather, Roman Kilcrease Sr.; and paternal grandmother, Lydia Kilcrease.

Bearers are Terry Stick, Trent Harry, Jesse Walton, Sam Thomas, Tim Deatherage, J.D. Deatherage, Jonathan Johns, Jimmy Johns, and Kevin Stick.

Honorary bearers are Seth Bakken, Roman Kilcrease, Charles Folsom, Tony Lewis, Phillip Lewis, Mitchell Lewis, Jeff Lewis, Edison Seeley, Richy Huffman and the Chickasaw Nation Dance Troop.

Online guest books are available at www.phillipsfuneralservice.com and www.adaeveningnews.com.

Smith-Phillips Funeral Home, Ada



RED PETTITT

SULPHUR — Services for James Donald Delano "Red" Pettitt, 76, Sulphur, are 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, at Hale's Krien Memorial Chapel, Sulphur. Mr. Pettitt died Sept. 15, 2009.

Hale's Krien Memorial Chapel, Sulphur



HAROLD MARLER

ALLEN — Services for Harold Marler, 85, Allen are 2 p.m. Friday at the Allen First Baptist Church, Revs. Chad Kaminski and Joe Howry will officiate. Burial will follow at Allen Cemetery.

Mr. Marler died Monday, September 14, 2009 at a Norman hospital.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada



BETTY CHAPMAN 

ATCHISON, Kan. — Services for Elizabeth “Betty” Ann Chapman, 83, Atchison, Kan., are Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2009, at 6 p.m. in the chapel of Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home with the Rev. Steven Boldridge officiating.  Visitation with the family will follow until 8 p.m.

Private family interment will be held Friday, Sept. 18, 2009, in Ada, Okla..

Mrs. Chapman died Friday, Sept. 11, 2009, at an Atchison nursing center. She was born Oct. 26, 1925, in Engals, Okla., the daughter of Dan and Letha May Davis Matthews.

She attended grade school in Harden, Okla., graduated from McLish High School in Fittstown, Okla., and attended the East Central University in Ada, Okla. Mrs. Chapman was a homemaker after her marriage in 1949, raising five children, while also working a variety of medical administration jobs in both Ada and later in Orlando, Okla. She served as a nurse’s aide at Valley View Hospital in Ada, (1960 - 1966) and at the Alverno Heights Hospital in Guthrie, Okla. (1966 - 1969). After Mrs. Chapman and her family moved to Atchison in 1969, she was employed by the Atchison Hospital (1969 -1982) years, and subsequently for the Medicalodge of Atchison before retiring in 1990. For the next eight years, she volunteered as a caretaker, doing “senior sitting” for a variety of Atchison residents. Mrs. Chapman moved to Guthrie in 1998 and returned to Atchison in 2005.

Mrs. Chapman attended First Christian Church in Atchison, Kans., and in Guthrie, Okla.

Survivors include three daughters, Deborah Sue Chapman-Scribner, Fort Smith, Ark., Dana Elizabeth Chapman-Peters, Gladstone, Mo., Ann Raquel Chapman-Huntington, Atchison, Kan.; two sons, Randall Jack Chapman, Alexandria, Va., Gregory Keith Chapman, Littleton, Colo.; 11 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter. 

 She was preceded in death by her parents, Leatha May Davis-Matthews and Dan William Matthews (Ada, Okla.), and her brother, Dan William Matthews (San Diego, Calif.).

Memorials are suggested to the Alzheimer’s Association and may be left in care of the funeral home. Online condolences may be left at www.arensbergpruett.com

Arensberg-Pruett Funeral Home, Atchison, Kan.