NAME: BENJAMIN DAVID NEW, AGE 81, OF LANE, LIFELONG ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: APRIL 19, 1928 AT LANE, OKLAHOMA TO GEORGE WILLIAM AND MAMIE (MAXEY) NEW. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 17, 1997 AT ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 81 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 14 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED LANE SCHOOL AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL. MARRIED: FARRIE MAE GAIL ON DECEMBER 8, 1940 AT DARWIN, OK. LATER MARRIED: KATHRYN HACKER. OCCUPATION: OVER 40 YEARS OF SERVICE WITH U. S. POSTAL SERVICE AS MAIL CARRIER AT LANE, OK. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF LANE BAPTIST CHURCH. HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U. S. ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II AND WAS A LIFEMEMBER OF THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, CHAPTER 60. SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER: CATHERINE BOOTH OF LANE, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: PEGGY BOOTH OF EARLSBORO, OK. PAMELA BOOTH OF LANE, OK. JOSH BOOTH OF LANE, OK. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: BENJAMIN SUMMEY OF ATOKA, OK. VIRGIE MAE COCHAN OF EARLBORO, OK. EMILY SUE COCHRAN OF EARLSBORO, OK. CHANCE ALLEN GLOVER OF LANE, OK. DESTINY BOOTH OF SHERMAN, TX. SISTER: SYLVIA FULLER OF LANE, OK. THEDA BELL MOORE OF NORMAN, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY WIFE: FARRIE MAE NEW ON FEBRUARY 11, 1986. SECOND WIFE: KATHRYN NEW IN 1993. BROTHER: JAMES NEW. SON-IN-LAW: RANDEL BOOTH IN FEBRUARY, 1997.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 1997 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: LANE BAPTIST CHURCH ~ LANE, OK. INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. BRAD JONES. CASKETBEARERS: LESTER BRADFORD, BUDDY DUNLAP, SHERMAN BLEDSOE, GEORGE NEILSON, HOLLIS YOUNG, BILL HACKER.