Published: September 23, 2009 10:55 am      

9-23-09 obituaries

JANET SHARP

KONAWA — Graveside services for Janet Sue Bush Sharp, 61, are 2 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 24, at Vamoosa Cemetery (east of Konawa). Kevin Duck will officiate.

Ms. Sharp died Tuesday, Sept. 22, 2009, at an Ada hospital. She was born on March 16, 1948, in Weleetka to Elizabeth Montgomery and Joseph Bush.

Survivors include two sons, Robert Sharp and wife, Tracy of Tulsa, and Michael Sharp and wife, Lori of Konawa; one daughter, Keri and husband, Tim Snow of Konawa; one brother, David Bush and wife, Willie of Tulsa; and five grandchildren, Brooke, Ashley, and Abbi Snow, and Kyler and Kaden Sharp.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Elizabeth and Joseph Bush.

An online guestbook is available at www.adaeveningnews.com.

Swearingen Funeral Home, Konawa



JOHN ROSS

CORTEZ, Colo. — Graveside services for John Eddie Ross, 72, are 2 p.m. Friday at Rosedale Cemetery, Ada, Okla.

Mr. Ross died Sept. 11, 2009, at a Cortez, Colo., hospital. He was born Feb. 18, 1937, to Henry Alvis Ross and Myrtle Jeannette Smith Ross at Lovelady, Okla.

He is survived by one aunt, Christy Smith, Ada, and several cousins.



ELSIE HARJO

ADA — Services for Elsie Mae Harjo, 69, Ada, are 1:30 p.m. Friday at Sand Creek Eufaula Baptist Church in Wewoka, the Rev. Houston Tiger, Deacon Dave Bowlegs, and the Rev. Cloyd Harjo officiating. Burial follows at Rosedale Cemetery. Friends and family may call at Sand Creek Eufaula Baptist Church from 4 p.m. Thursday until service time.

Mrs. Harjo died Monday, Sept. 21, 2009, at her home. She was born Feb. 19, 1940, near Wewoka in Seminole County to Earnest and Alice Harjo.

She attended school at Wewoka. She was a homemaker and was a member of Sand Creek Eufaula Baptist Church in Wewoka.

Survivors include six daughters, Charlotte Johnson House, Earnestine Tiger, both of Ada, Tyra Hernandez, Dallas, Texas, Tyralese Camron, Konawa, Yvette Washington and Tina Washington, both of Dallas, Texas; two sons, Paul Washington, Ada; and Legus Beard, Dallas, Texas; three brothers, the Rev. Cloyd Harjo, Eufaula; David Spencer and Redmond Spencer, both of Wewoka; a sister, Ruby Hill, Okemah; and numerous grandchildren and great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by a son, Nigel Nokosey Beard; two brothers, Floyd Harjo and Richmond Spencer; and a sister, Mary Beaver.

Bearers are Vernon Johnson, Joe Tiger, Christopher Hernandez, Vicente Hernandez, Roisando Gonzalez and Chad Camron.

Online guestbook is available at www.adaeveningnews.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada