NAME: DAVID EARL DOWNING , AGE 53 A LIFE LONG ATOKA AREA RESIDENT BORN: DECEMBER 26, 1953 AT COALGATE, OK. TO VICTOR EARL AND VERNIA ANN (BAUGHMAN) DOWNING. PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2007 AT THE OKLAHOMA HEART HOSPITAL IN OKLAHOMA CITY, OK. AGE: 53 YEARS 10 MONTHS EDUCATION: DAVID ATTENDED SCHOOL IN ATOKA GRADUATING IN 1972. OCCUPATION: DAVID WAS EMPLOYEED BY THE ATOKA POST OFFICE AND THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN CUSTODIAL AND MAINTAINENCE CHURCH AFFILIATION: HE WAS A LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE ATOKA UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. DAVID WAS AN ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE ATOKA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION AND HE WAS THE ATOKA WAMPUS CATS #1 FAN ATTENTING 303 FOOTBALL GAMES AND MOST BASKETBALL GAMES IN THE PAST 30 YEARS. DAVID ALSO LOVED GOING TO THE MOVIES AND THE COFFEE SHOP. SURVIVED BY SISTER: DIANE BILLINGS OF ATOKA, OK. BROTHER: DARRELL DOWNING AND WIFE KIM OF NOBLE. OK. 4 NEPHEWS: MARCUS BILLINGS OF ALBUQUQURE, N.M. JASON DOWNING OF ADA, OK. PARKER KUGLER OF NOBLE. OK. COLE KUGLER OF NOBLE, OK. SISTER-IN LAW; KAREN FOLGER AND HUSBAND JIM OF ADA, OK. ALONG WITH NUMEROUS NIECES, NEPHEWS, OTHER RELATIVES AND MANY VERY DEAR AND LOVED FRIENDS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: VICTOR AND VERNIA DOWNING *************************************************************************************************************** FUNERAL SERVICES DATE: MONDAY, OCTOBER 29 , 2007 AT 2:00 PM PLACE OF SERVICE: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL, ATOKA CEMETERY: WESTVIEW CEMENTERY MINISTER; REV. DAVID MINGUS CASKETBEARERS: BRIAN WALKER, CLIFFORD BROWN, JIM BRIGGS, MIKE ELLIOTT, RICKY CHASE, JIM TURNER HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BRENT DANIEL. DON BARNARD. CHARLES McGEE, SNAKE NORMAN, RONNIE FAULKENBERRY,DONNIE BURKE NO FAMILY NIGHT THE FAMILY REQUEST DONATIONS BE MADE TO THE FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH MEMORIAL FUND SERVICES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF BROWN'S FUNERAL SERVICE - ATOKA, OK