NAME: CLIFFORD H. TEENCE COATS, AGE 76, A LONGTIME LANE AND ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: AUGUST 9, 1925 AT LANE TO CLAUDE AND BEULAH (GOODSON) COATS. PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY, APRIL 5, 2002 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 76 YEARS 7 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS.

EDUCATION: HE ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT DOK AND BUTLER.

MARRIED: LUCILLE BURKHALTER ON MARCH 10, 1946 AT SHERMAN, TX.

OCCUPATION: CLIFFORD WORKED AS A TRUCK DRIVER, SAW MILLER, CONSTRUCTION WORKER AND WORKED A NUMBER OF YEARS FOR ATOKA COUNTY DISTRICT 2, AND WAS A RANCHER MOST OF HIS LIFE.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE HILLCREST BAPTIST CHURCH.

HE WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE TEAMSTERS UNION.

SURVIVED BY

CHILDREN: DARRELL COATS AND WIFE SHARON OF LANE, OK. HAROLD COATS AND WIFE FLORA OF STRINGTOWN, SHARON HOOK AND HUSBAND MIKE OF TUSHKA, OK.

8 GRANDCHILDREN, 16 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

SISTER: CHARLENE RACKLEY OF MADISONVILLE, TN.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: CLAUDE AND BEULAH (GOODSON) COATS. WIFE: LUCILLE ON MARCH 29, 2001. SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW: LORENE AND LEAMON SOUTH. BROTHERS: CLYDE AND ROBERT BUCK COATS. INFANT TWIN BROTHER AND SISTER: DARRELL AND MURRELL COATS.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, APRIL 9, 2002 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. JOHN HOWARD. ASSISTING: REV. LOYD THOMPSON.

CASKETBEARERS: BUDDY ELDRIDGE, RAY GOFF, GILBERT WILSON, HARRY FARRIS, BUDDY PRATHER, GARY MCCOOL.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: JOHNNY FAULKENBERRY, PAUL SILVERS, DOLAN LATIMER, JACK MCGINTY, LUCY MOFFITT, TED NOWLAN, ARBRA CROUCH, R. V. GOODSON.