NAME: CARL ODELL POWELL, AGE 81, LIFETIME COAL AND ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: OCTOBER 10, 1920 AT COTTONWOOD, COAL COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TO MELVIN LEE AND VIOLET (MCDANIEL) POWELL. PASSED AWAY: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2001 AT HIS RESIDENCE IN COALGATE, OK. AGE: 81 YEARS 1 MONTH AND 26 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOL AT ROUND HILL IN COAL COUNTY, OK.

MARRIED: EUNICE DEAN HUDSON ON MAY 4, 1944 AT BLYTHEVILLE, AR.

OCCUPATION: FARMER.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: HE WAS A MEMBER OF COALGATE CHURCH OF CHRIST.

ODELL SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U.S. ARMY AND WAS STATIONED IN HAWAIIAN ISLANDS DURING WORLD WAR II. HE WAS ALSO A FORMER MEMBER OF ATOKA TRAILRIDERS AND CANEY RELAY RACE TEAM. ODELL LOVED GOING ON TRAIL RIDES AND WAGON TRAINS WITH HIS MULES.

SURVIVED BY

WIFE: EUNICE POWELL OF THEIR HOME IN COALGATE, OK.

DAUGHTERS: FRANCES BROWN OF PHILLIPS, OK. DORTHA BAUMERT AND HUSBAND MIKE OF PHILLIPS, OK. LOIS MILLER AND HUSBAND MARK OF DURANT, OK. PATSY BROWN AND HUSBAND PHILIP OF COALGATE, OK.

GRANDCHILDREN: TONY WATSON OF OLNEY, OK. TRAVIS BROWN OF OKLAHOMA CITY. SCOTT BROWN OF COALGATE, OK. JUSTIN BROWN OF BUTCHER PEN, OK. JOHN MILLER OF DURANT, OK. JASON MILLER OF DURANT, OK. JAMY MILLER OF DURANT, OK. AMY (BROWN) MANNING OF CHECOTAH, OK. MELISSA (BAUMERT) LEE OF OLNEY, OK.

12 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

BROTHERS: ROLAND DWIGHT POWELL AND WIFE CATHRINE OF LEHIGH, OK. KENNETH KAY POWELL AND WIFE PENNEY OF ASHLAND, OK.

SISTER: EDITH MAE MCININCH OF ATOKA, OK.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: MELVIN AND VIOLET POWELL. GRANDSON: VINCENT ODELL BROWN. SON-IN-LAW: VICTOR HERBERT BROWN. BROTHERS: LINVEL AND MARLIN LEE POWELL, SR.

DATE OF SERVICES: SATURDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2001 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: GRAVESIDE.

INTERMENT: CENTRAHOMA CEMETERY ~ CENTRAHOMA, OK.

OFFICIATING: LLOYD MCELHANEY.

CASKETBEARERS: TONY WAYNE WATSON, TRAVIS DEAN BROWN, PHILIP SCOTT BROWN, JUSTIN HERBERT BROWN, JOHN MARK MILLER JR., AMY JOLENE (BROWN) MANNING.