Published: October 26, 2009 12:05 pm      

Archived Obituaries 10-26-09

ANNETTE RHOADS

ADA — Services for Annette K. Rhoads, 89, Ada are 2 p.m. Wednesday at Rollow Chapel of the First United Methodist Church, Dr. George Warren will officiate. Burial will be at Berryville, Arkansas.

Mrs. Rhoads died Friday, Oct. 23, 2009 at her home. She was born Oct. 19, 1920 at Shawnee, Okla. to Edward Kenneth Knouse Sr. and Lydia Pearl Nicholson Knouse. She graduated from Shawnee High School and moved to Ada in 1965 from Berryville.

She married Thurman Ford Chafin in 1944. He preceded her in death in 1964. She later married Martin Rhoads in 1981. He preceded her in death in 2002 in Ada. Mrs. Rhoads was a bookkeeper in Ada and a member of First United Methodist church since 1965. She was also a member of the Kiwanis Club and Beta Sigma Phi.

Survivors include a daughter, Mary Ann Chafin and her companion, Julie Fuchs, Brooklyn N.Y.; two step-daughters, Patty Pirroli and Simone Miller, both of Pennsylvania; a step-son, Gerald Rhoads, Las Vegas, Nev.; a sister, Kaki McNamara, West Linn, Ore.; and numerous nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her first husband, Thurman Ford Chafin in 1964, her second husband, Martin Rhoads in 2002; a son, James Edward Chafin in 1986; two sisters, Kay Brown and Eleanor Granger; and a brother, Edward Kenneth Knouse Jr.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada



LINDA JONES

STRATFORD — Services for Linda Sue Jones, 59, will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Pickard Funeral Home Chapel in Stratford. Burial will follow at Corley Cemetery south of Stratford on State Highway 177. Ms. Jones died Oct. 23, 2009.

Pickard Funeral Home, Stratford