NAME: COLLEEN RICKY (BOWEN) CLOTFELTER, AGE 75, LIFELONG WARDVILLE AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: APRIL 24, 1923 AT WARDVILLE, OK TO BEN LACEY AND JESSIE LEOMA (MOORE) BOWEN. PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY, JANUARY 1, 1999 AT HER RESIDENCE NEAR WARDVILLE, OK. AGE: 75 YEARS 8 MONTHS AND 7 DAYS. EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM LIMESTONE GAP AND ATTENDED TULSA BUSINESS COLLEGE. MARRIED: GEORGE CLOTFELTER ON OCTOBER 17, 1959 AT MCALESTER, OK. RICKY WAS VERY ACTIVE IN THE WARDVILLE COMMUNITY. SHE HAD OWNED AND OPERATED NUMEROUS BUSINESSES SUCH AS FLOWER SHOPS IN COALGATE AND ANTLERS, BEAUTY SHOPS IN ATOKA AND MCALESTER, AND A RESTAURANT IN ADA. SHE WAS ACTIVE IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND THE COUNTY HOMEMAKER CLUBS THROUGH THE YEARS. SHE HELPED TO REORGANIZE THE LIMESTONE GAP SCHOOL ALUMINI ASSOCIATION AND WAS OF BAPTIST FAITH. SURVIVED BY HUSBAND: GEORGE CLOTFELTER OF THE HOME NEAR WARDVILLE, OK. DAUGHTER: JESSIE JOE TUNNEL AND HUSBAND HARRY OF ADA, OK. 6 GRANDCHILDREN, 6 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. STEPSONS: RONALD CLOTFELTER OF SNOW, OK. CHARLES CLOTFELTER OF LAS VEGAS, NV. STEPDAUGHTERS: GEORGINE CLOTFELTER AND SANDRA BASS BOTH OF UTAH. VERY SPECIAL GRANDDAUGHTERS: ELODIE CLOTFELTER AND SUZANNE ESTES. VERY SPECIAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS: ALICE BOWEN, CODY BOWEN, RICKEY LEE BOWEN, JOE BEN BOWEN. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: BEN AND JESSIE BOWEN. BROTHERS: ELMER EARL, BEN LACEY CHUG, AND JIM BOWEN.

DATE OF SERVICES: MONDAY, JANUARY 4, 1998 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: IN THE BOWEN ADDITION OF THE BETHEL CEMETERY, NORTHWEST OF STRINGTOWN, OK OFFICIATING: REV. JAMES CROWSON. ASSISTING: ROYCE MANION. CASKETBEARERS: JAKE SHIELDS, KERWIN MANION, JUSTIN MANION, RODNEY COUCH, TERRY ENSCO, RALPH MCCLENDON. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: TOMMY MANION, JAMES THOMPSON, N. Y. THOMPSON, ROBERT HOWARD, BILL COUCH, TRACY BRYANT, J. V. NEWBERRY, BUD COUCH.