NAME: CLEO BELLE (WILLIAMS) COOKSEY, AGE 85, A LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: OCTOBER 17, 1918 AT ATOKA, OK TO JAMES JIM AMBROSE AND HATTIE LOU (KING) WILLIAMS.

PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY MORNING, MAY 11, 2004 AT HER RESIDENCE IN ATOKA, OK. AGE: 85 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 24 DAYS

EDUCATION: CLEO ATTENDED TUSHKA SCHOOL AND WAS A 1936 GRADUATE.

MARRIED: C. L. COOKSEY ON DECEMBER 7, 1937 AT ATOKA, OK.

OCCUPATION: CLEO WAS A LOVING WIFE AND MOTHER, SHE ALSO WORKED AS A CLERK AT THE WOODS BROTHERS DEPARTMENT STORE AND LATER WAS A SECRETARY AT C & W LUMBER IN RATTAN AND FARRIS, OK.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: CLEO WAS A MEMBER OF THE ATOKA FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH.

SURVIVED BY

CHILDREN: JOYCE COBEN AND HUSBAND BILL OF LANE, OK. LYNDEL COOKSEY AND WIFE PAULA OF CASTLE ROCK, CO. JOHNNY COOKSEY AND WIFE MILDRED OF AKRON, OH. PHYLLIS WOOD AND HUSBAND BUDDY OF DUNCAN, OK.

GRANDCHILDREN: TRESA WALLER, DAVID WILSON, CARLA WILLIAMS, VICKI DANIEL, CHERILYN VERLEY, BRAD COOKSEY, CHRIS COOKSEY, MANDI HAMPTON, AND MORGAN MARSHALL.

12 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN AND 10 GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

SISTERS: MABEL MILLICAN OF CHECOTAH, OK. NADINE GORDON OF ATOKA, OK. LOUISE MILLS OF DALLAS, TX.

COUSIN RAISED AS A BROTHER: PAUL WIMPY ALLEN OF SULPHUR SPRINGS, TX.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

HUSBAND: C. L. COOKSEY ON JANUARY 7, 1985. PARENTS: JAMES AND HATTIE (KING) WILLIAMS. BROTHERS: PAUL, WALLACE AND LEO WILLIAMS. SISTER: GENEVA FINK.

DATE OF SERVICES: FRIDAY, MAY 14, 2004 AT 10:30 AM PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: TUSHKA CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. ROBERT EARL UMSTED.

CASKETBEARERS: LYN COOKSEY, JOHN COOKSEY, BRAD COOKSEY, CHRIS COOKSEY, MORGAN MARSHALL, JODY WHITE.