June, 1999 Memorials
 
 
 
 
NAME:      EDITH (DEWITT) SHELTON, AGE 64, A LIFELONG ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.
 
BORN:    JULY 18, 1934 NEAR WILSON COMMUNITY IN ATOKA COUNTY TO ARCH AND ELSIE (TAYLOR) DEWITT.
 
PASSED AWAY:     SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1999 AT HER DAUGHTER’S RESIDENCE IN DUNCAN, OK.
AGE:     64 YEARS  10 MONTHS  AND  17 DAYS.
 
EDUCATION:     ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT WILSON AND BOGGY DEPOT, OK.
 
MARRIED:   RAY SHELTON ON OCTOBER 5, 1965 AT SHERMAN, TX.
 
OCCUPATION:    EDITH WORKED IN FOOD SERVICE FOR MANY YEARS.
 
CHURCH AFFILIATION:    MEMBER OF SOUTHSIDE BAPTIST CHURCH IN ATOKA, OK.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
DAUGHTER:    PAULA SAINT AND HUSBAND PETER OF DUNCAN, OK.
 
GRANDCHILDREN:     BRIAN PAUL HAZLEWOOD OF DUNCAN, OK.
                                         TIFFANY GAIL HAZLEWOOD OF DUNCAN, OK.
                                         CHRISTOPHER WAYNE JEFFREYS AND WIFE BALINDA OF DAYTON, OH.
 
GREAT GRANDCHILDREN:     KELLY RHIANNON MCCARTNEY AND LAUREN MARIE JEFFREYS.
 
BROTHERS:    LEON ARTIE DEWITT AND WIFE CONNIE OF WICHITA, KS.
                           CURTIS DAL WILLEBY AND WIFE JANE OF ATHENS, TX.
 
SISTER:    ROSETTA MEDCALF OF ATOKA, OK.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
PARENTS:   ARCH AND ELSIE DEWITT.
SON:     MARK WAYNE JEFFREYS IN March, 1979.
 
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 9, 1999 AT 2:00 P.M.  
PLACE OF SERVICES:     BROWN’S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA , OK. 
 
INTERMENT:     BOGGY DEPOT CEMETERY, ATOKA COUNTY, OK.
 
OFFICIATING:     REV. JESSIE A. WALLIS.
ASSISTING:     REV. CLAUD BUIE.
 
CASKETBEARERS:     LONNIE TAYLOR, LONNIE FORD, NOEL POWELL, SAM HARBOUR, RAYMOND TAYLOR, EDGAR SMITH.
 
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS:    J. R. ROBERTS, TOMMY MAZIERE.
 
 
 
 
NAME:      ANNA THERESA PERTONEY, AGE 93, OF ATOKA AND FORMER LONGTIME CHICAGO, ILLINOIS RESIDENT.
 
BORN:    JUNE 17, 1905 NEAR LEHIGH IN INDIAN TERRITORY TO VICTOR AND RENA (SUPERIOR) PERTONEY.
 
PASSED AWAY:   SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1999 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
AGE:     93 YEARS  11 MONTHS  AND 18 DAYS.
 
EDUCATION:     GRADUATED FROM ST. EXAVIER CATHOLIC SCHOOL IN DENISON, TX.
 
OCCUPATION:    ANNA WORKED MANY YEARS AT THE NORTHERN TRUST BANK IN CHICAGO, IL.
 
CHURCH AFFILIATION:    CATHOLIC FAITH.
 
SHE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER AND SECRETARY OF THE FRETTED INSTRUMENT GUILD OF AMERICA.
ANNA WAS A CONCERTIST, MANDOLINIST, ACCORDIONIST, AND PIANIST. SHE MADE MANY FRIENDS ACROSS THE WORLD DURING HER YEARS AS A MUSICIAN.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
ANNA HAS NO KNOWN RELATIVES BUT IS SURVIVED BY MANY FRIENDS INCLUDING:
 
LYNN AND KEITH LEMMER OF CHICAGO, IL.
GREG LEMMER OF LEXINGTON, VA.
KATHRYN HARVEY OF ATOKA, OK.
DORA LEE MOORE OF ATOKA, OK.
BETH DELCAMBRE OF BIXBY, OK.
DEL BROWN OF METAIRIE, LA.
SHERRY ANN HOLLINGER OF ORANGE PARK, FL.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
PARENTS:   VICTOR AND RENA PERTONEY.
 
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    TUESDAY, JUNE 8, 1999 10:00 A.M.
PLACE OF SERVICES:   GRAVESIDE SERVICES.
 
INTERMENT:   LEHIGH CEMETERY ~ LEHIGH, OK.
 
OFFICIATING:   FATHER NORBERT KARAVA.
 
 
 
 
NAME:      ANNIE (THOMERSON) BOMSBURGER, AGE 92 LIFELONG ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.
 
BORN:    OCTOBER 15, 1906 AT CLARKSVILLE, ARKANSAS TO THOMAS MILTON AND MARY FRANCIS (SIDES) THOMERSON.
 
PASSED AWAY:     SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1999 AT THE MEDICAL CENTER OF SE OKLAHOMA IN DURANT.
AGE:   92 YEARS    7 MONTHS   AND  20 DAYS
 
EDUCATION:     ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT KIOWA AND CENTERPOINT, OK.
 
MARRIED:     ANDREW J. BOMSBURGER ON MARCH 13, 1921 AT ATOKA.
 
OCCUPATION:    HOUSEWIFE AND HOMEMAKER.
 
CHURCH AFFILIATION:    LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
DAUGHTER:    ANNIE MAE ROBINSON AND HUSBAND MARSHALL OF ALEDO, TX.
 
SON:     TOMEY BOMSBURGER AND WIFE MADELINE OF FARMINGTON, CA.
 
16 GRANDCHILDREN,  42 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, 28 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
 
SON IN-LAW:    BEN BONHAM OF TUSHKA, OK.
 
DAUGHTERS IN-LAW:    NANCY BOMSBURGER OF POTTSBORO, TX.
                                             STELLA McDANIEL OF PEYSON, AZ.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
PARENTS:     THOMAS MILTON AND MARY FRANCIS THOMERSON.
HUSBAND:   ANDREW BOMSBURGER oN may 15, 1970.
SONS:    RICHARD AND A. J. BOMSBURGER.
DAUGHTER:    NORMA BONHAM.
GREAT GRANDSON:    CHRISTOPHER ROBINSON.
GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER:    JOANNA DENISE DAVIS.
GREAT GREAT GREAT GRAND DAUGHTER:    KRISTAN LYNN RAULZ-LUDWIG.
 
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    MONDAY, JUNE 7, 1999 AT 2:00 P.M. 
PLACE OF SERVICES:   BROWN’S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.
 
INTERMENT:   TUSHKA CEMETERY ~ TUSHKA, OK.
 
OFFICIATING:   REV. BOB JOHNSON.
 
CASKETBEARERS:   JOSEPH WOODS, PAUL LUDWIG, TONY BOMSBURGER, ROGER BOMSBURGER, JOHN DILLEY.
 
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS:    DANNY SMITH, ROBERT SMITH.
 
 
 
 
NAME:    DOROTHY M. (CERIOTTI) PIQUARD, AGE 77, LONGTIME RESIDENT OF SOUTHGATE, MI.
 
BORN:    FEBRUARY 10, 1922 AT COTTONWOOD, OK TO ANGELO AND LOIS CERIOTTI.
 
PASSED AWAY:     SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1999 AT RIVERSIDE HOSPITAL IN TRENTON, MI.
AGE:   77 YEARS   4 MONTHS  AND 3 DAYS
 
EDUCATION:   SHE ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT CAIRO, COTTONWOOD, AND COALGATE, OK.
 
MARRIED:   AUGUST PIQUARD..
 
OCCUPATION: 
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
DAUGHTER:    CAROL WEIR AND HUSBAND TOM OF SOUTHGATE, MI.
 
GRANDCHILDREN:   JULIA, GREG, CARLA, DAVID, JENNIFER, DANIEL, SARAH, AND DEREK.
 
9 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.
 
DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW:    ELENORE AND OCIE.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
PARENTS:   ANGELO AND LOIS CERIOTTI.
HUSBAND:   AUGUST PIQUARD in april, 1980.
SON:   JOHNNY PIQUARD.
BROTHER:   LOUIS CERIOTTI AND WIFE JEWELL.
          
 
DATE OF SERVICES:      THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1999 AT 11:00 A.M.
PLACE OF SERVICES:     GRAVESIDE SERVICES.
 
INTERMENT:     COALGATE CITY CEMETERY ~ COALGATE, OK.
 
 
 
 
NAME:      RUTH MAE (LEWIS) HAMMOND, AGE 92, A RESIDENT OF COLONIAL MANOR IN ATOKA AND FORMER McALESTER AND CALERA RESIDENT.
 
BORN:    OCTOBER 25, 1906 AT KINTA, OK TO SIMON FRAIZER AND LILLIE OLA (LANE) LEWIS.
 
PASSED AWAY:     SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1999 AT  THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL.
AGE:     92 YEARS  7  MONTHS  AND   18 DAYS
 
EDUCATION:   ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT ROCK CREEK NEAR FEATHERSTON, OK.
 
MARRIED:     EARL HAMMOND AT FLORENCE, AZ.
 
OCCUPATION:    SHE WAS A HOUSEWIFE AND HOMEMAKER.
 
CHURCH AFFILIATION:    SHE WAS BAPTIST FAITH.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
SISTER:    VELMA STANFORD OF DENISON, OK.
 
SISTER-IN-LAW:     LAVADA HAMMOND OF LANE, OK.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
HUSBAND:     EARL HAMMOND in april, 1972.
PARENTS:     SIMON AND LILLIE LEWIS.
SISTER:    JULIA MYRES.
BROTHERS:    HASKELL, CLARENCE, AND L. C. LEWIS.
 
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    NO SERVICES.
 
INTERMENT:   NONE - MRS. HAMMOND WAS CREMATED.
 
 
 
 
NAME:      TOMMY DWAINE GLASSCOCK, AGE 68 LONGTIME McLOUD RESIDENT AND FORMER WESLEY - PITTSBURG AREA RESIDENT.
 
BORN:    SEPTEMBER 11, 1930 AT WESLEY, OK TO W. A. AND ESTELLINE (CROWSON) GLASSCOCK.
 
PASSED AWAY:     SUNDAY, JUNE 13, 1999 AT MIDWEST CITY, OK.
AGE:     68 YEARS   9 MONTHS  AND  2 DAYS.
 
EDUCATION:     ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT WESLEY AND GRADUATED IN 1947 FROM PITTSBURG HIGH SCHOOL. HE ATTENDED SOUTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY AND LATER GRADUATED FROM OKLAHOMA A & M (NOW OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY) WITH A DEGREE IN ANIMAL SCIENCE.
 
MARRIED:   CHRISTINE ROZAK ON SEPTEMBER 18,1970 AT SHAWNEE, OK.
 
OCCUPATION:    HE RETIRED WITH 32 YEARS SERVICE WITH TINKER AIR FORCE BASE. AT TIME OF HIS RETIREMENT HE WAS WAS AN ITEM MANAGEMENT SUPERVISOR AT THE AIR LOGISTICS CENTER. HE ALSO RAISED CATTLE.
 
TOMMY  SERVED IN THE U.S. ARMY DURING THE KOREAN war aS A STAFF SERGEaNT.
 
HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN LEGION, THE OKLAHOMA AND THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCiation AND, IN EARLIER YEARS, HE RODEOED as well as WAS A MEMBER OF THE RODEO COWBOYS ASSOCiation.  TOMMY LOVED RODEOS AND TRAVELING.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
WIFE:    CHRIS glasscock OF THE HOME AT McLOUD, OK.
 
DAUGHTER:    LETA WATKINS AND HUSBAND DON OF STUART, OK.
 
FATHER:    W. A. GLASSCOCK OF WESLEY, OK.
 
GRANDCHILDREN:     LISA SIMONE AND HUSBAND CHRIS OF WICHITA, KS.
                                         MICHAEL AND KELLY PAGONIS OF OKLAHOMA CITY.
 
GREAT GRANDSON:    MASON SIMONE OF WICHITA, KS.
 
BROTHER:     BILL EDD GLASSCOCK AND WIFE BARBARA OF WESLEY, OK.
 
SISTERS:     DOROTHA BURNS OF ROSWELL, NM.
                       GWYN MEADERS OF RANDLETT, OK.
                       WYNA GRIPPARDO AND HUSBAND CHARLIE OF KREBS, OK.
                       RUTH LAFEVERS AND HUSBAND JOHN OF EUFAULA, OK.
                       KAY HORN OF WESLEY, OK.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
MOTHER:    ESTELLINE GLASSCOCK on april 21, 1996.
SON:     WADE GLASSCOCK.
 
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16,1999 AT 2:00 P.M.
PLACE OF SERVICES:     BROWN’S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.
 
INTERMENT:     WESLEY CEMETERY ~ WESLEY, OK.
 
OFFICIATING:     REV. JAMES CROWSON.
 
CASKETBEARERS:   (NEPHEWS) DWAINE BURNS, DWIGHT BURNS, DALE BURNS, DREW BURNS, DON BURNS, BUDDY MEADERS, GREG McGEE. RUSSELL McGEE, BRAD HORN, BRENT HORN, BRYAN HORN.
 
 
 
 
NAME:      NATHAN TODD COOPER, AGE 21, OF ATOKA, OK.
 
BORN:    OCTOBER 7, 1977 AT LIBERAL, KANSAS TO ROY DEAN AND DEBRA LYNNE (ANSLEY) COOPER.
 
PASSED AWAY:   FRIDAY, JUNE 18, 1999  AT ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL IN TULSA FROM INJURIES HE RECeiVED IN AN ATV ACCIDENT.
AGE:     21 YEARS  8 MONTHS   AND   11 DAYS
 
EDUCATION:   ATTENDED school THROUGH SIXTH GRADE AT HOOKER, OK AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1996.  NATHAN WAS ACTIVE IN 4-H AND FFA AND SHOWED LIVESTOCK MANY YEARS.
 
OCCUPATION:    WORKED AS A MECHANIC. HE HAD WORKED FOR ATOKA MOTOR SALES SEVERAL YEARS, WESTERN AUTO TIRE CENTER, AND MOST RECENTLY, JIM WHITE TRUCKING.
 
CHURCH AFFILIATION:    A MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN ATOKA, ok. 
 
NATHAN WAS A MEMBER OF THE SANDTRAX RACING TEAM.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
PARENTS:     ROY AND DEBBIE COOPER OF THE HOME IN ATOKA, OK.
 
SISTER:    NIKKI COOPER OF ATOKA, OK.
 
GRANDMOTHER:     DORIS ANSLEY HILLMAN OF HOOKER, OK.
 
GREAT GRAND MOTHER:    ETHEL ANSLEY OF GUYMOND, OK.
 
UNCLES:      DENNIS ANSLEY OF HOOKER, OK.
                       STEVE ANSLEY AND WIFE LISA OF HOOKER, OK.
                       CLEBURN ELDRIDGE AND WIFE SHIRLEY OF DENVER, CO.
                       LEON ELDRIDGE AND WIFE CAROL OF EDMOND, OK.
                       VERLE ELDRIDGE AND WIFE GLENDA OF HARDESTY, OK.
                       ELDON ELDRIDGE AND WIFE EMMA MAE OF HARDESTY, OK.
 
AUNTS:     MADELINE COOPER OF GUYMOND, OK.
                   PATSY KNIGHT OF LEWISVILLE, TX.
 
SPECIAL COUSINS:     TYSON AND CODY ANSLEY AND RYAN KIMBREL.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
GRANDPARENTS:    ROY ANSLEY AND F. F. ”BUSTER” AND HAZEL COOPER.
AUNT:    NORMA HITCHINGS ANSLEY.
UNCLES:    WARREN STRAIT AND BILLY COOPER.
AND A VERY SPECIAL FRIEND:   KRISSI HAGGARD. 
      
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    TUESDAY JUNE 22, 1999 AT 10:00 A.M. 
PLACE OF SERVICES:     FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ~ ATOKA, OK.
 
INTERMENT:     HOOKER  CEMETERY ~ HOOKER, OK.
 
OFFICIATING:     REV. JERRY WILLIAMS.
ASSISTING:   JOE CHAPIN.
 
COMMITTAL SERVICE:   WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23, 1999 AT 2:00 P. m. AT THE HOOKER FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH.
 
 
 
 
NAME:      LONNIE DALE McKINNEY, AGE 53, OF COALGATE, OK.
 
BORN:    APRIL 8, 1946 IN ATOKA, OK TO ALBERT OREY AND THORBE OPHELIA (CUMMINS) McKINNEY.
 
PASSED AWAY:     MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1999 AT CONNER CORRECTIONAL CENTER IN HOMINY, OK.
AGE:     53 YEARS  2 MONTHS AND  20 DAYS.
 
EDUCATION:   ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL IN CALIFORNIA AND GRADUATED FROM COALGATE HIGH SCHOOL.
 
OCCUPATION:    FORMER POLICE CHIEF IN COALGATE DURING THE 1970S AND ALSO WORKED IN ROAD CONSTRUCTION.
 
HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE EASTERN OKLAHOMA ROAD RIDERS ASSOCIATION.
 
 
     SURVIVED BY
 
MOTHER:    THORBE McKINNEY OF COALGATE, OK.
 
CHILDREN:    RICKY McKINNEY OF COALGATE, OK.
                           PAM POTHOFF AND HUSBAND JIM OF COALGATE, OK.
                           STARLA McKINNEY OF COALGATE, OK.
 
GRANDCHILDREN:     ALLISON POTHOFF, TINA POTHOFF, JACOB POTHOFF, AND WILLIE CLYDE McKINNEY.
 
BROTHER:     RODNEY McKINNEY OF COALGATE, OK.
 
 
     PRECEDED IN DEATH BY
 
FATHER:    ALBERT McKINNEY.
BROTHER:   DEAN McKINNEY.
    
 
DATE OF SERVICES:    FRIDAY, JULY 2, 1999 AT 2:00 P.M.
PLACE OF SERVICES:   BROWN’S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.
 
INTERMENT:   WOODMAN CEMETERY ~ COAL COUNTY, OK.
 
OFFICIATING:   REV. JIM SMITH.
 
CASKETBEARERS:   FELLOW BIKER FRIENDS.
 
HONORARY CASKETBEARERS:    WAYLON McKINNEY, JUSTIN McKINNEY, ARNIE McKINNEY, JASON, McKINNEY, DANIEL DILLARD.
 
 
 
 
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