NAME: BILLIE CATHERINE (WALKER) PENICK, AGE 82, A LONGTIME ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: AUGUST 13, 1922 AT ATOKA, OK TO HENRY AND MARIE (JOHNSON) WALKER.

PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, MAY 24, 2005 AT THE STONEGATE NURSING HOME IN STONEWALL.

AGE: 82 YEARS 9 MONTHS AND 11 DAYS

EDUCATION: BILLIE ATTENDED AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH IN 1940.

MARRIED: JOHN PENICK,

OCCUPATION: BILLIE WORKED AS AN OFFICE CLERK FOR AND RETIRED FROM THE SAVANNA ARMY AMMUNITION DEPOT.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: SHE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN ATOKA. SHE PLAYED THE PIANO AND ORGAN FOR HER HOME CHURCH AS WELL AS MANY OTHER LOCAL CHURCHES.

SHE WAS ALSO A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE EASTERN STAR. BILLIE LOVED TO GO TO THE VETERAN'S CENTER AND PLAY BINGO.

SURVIVED BY

5 NIECES AND NEPHEWS.

DEAR FRIENDS: LON AND ELAINE (CHAPPEL) FINK OF ATOKA, OK.

MELVA DANIEL OF COTTONWOOD.

ELIZABETH BRIGGS OF ATOKA.

OLEN AND MARY ANN CURRY OF ATOKA.

ODESSA FARMER OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

BOBBIE WILSON OF ATOKA.

ALONG WITH MANY OTHER DEAR AND LOVED FRIENDS INCLUDING HER CARETAKERS AT STONEGATE NURSING HOME, FELLOW EASTERN STAR MEMBERS AND HER CHRISTIAN FRIENDS AT THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: HENRY AND MARIE WALKER.

HUSBAND: JOHN PENICK ON FEBRUARY 25, 1990.

BROTHER: HENRY WALKER, JR.

SISTER: JEAN HAGGARD.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, MAY 26, 2005 AT 10:00 AM.

PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: WESTVIEW CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. RON KING.

ASSISTING: LON FINK.

CASKETBEARERS: J. D. BRADY, JAMES KINCADE, DOYAL EGAN, DOLAN LATIMER, ARTIE STAGGS, JAMES TURNER.

NO FAMILY NIGHT.