NAME: EARL BRADFORD, AGE 90, LONGTIME LANE AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: APRIL 15, 1911 AT LANE, OK TO MACK CAIN AND NORA ELIZABETH (SULLIVAN) BRADFORD. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2001 AT COLONIAL LIVING CENTER IN ATOKA, OK. AGE: 90 YEARS 7 MONTHS AND 11 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOL AT MYERS CHAPEL IN THE LANE COMMUNITY. MARRIED: CLARA B. PERKINS ON JANUARY 19, 1935 AT DURANT, OK. OCCUPATION: HE WAS A FARMER AND RANCHER AND LONG TIME BUS DRIVER AND GREEN THUMB WORKER AT LANE SCHOOL FOR APPROXIMATELY 30 YEARS. CHURCH AFFILIATION: EARL WAS A CHARTER MEMBER OF IRON STOB PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH WHICH BEGAN IN 1932. HE TAUGHT ADULT SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS FOR 68 YEARS. HE READ THE NEW TESTAMENT 232 TIMES AND THE OLD TESTAMENT 14 TIMES. SURVIVED BY SON: O. E. BRADFORD AND WIFE BETTY OF PAMPA, TX. DAUGHTERS: ANN DYKES AND HUSBAND BRYANT OF PIEDMONT, OK. DOROTHY HOWARD AND HUSBAND PETE OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDDAUGHTERS: VICKIE FELDER AND HUSBAND MIKE OF WAUKMOS, OK. SHARON HOLCOMB AND HUSBAND JOHN OF ATOKA, OK. PAULA DODSON OF PIEDMONT, OK. VALRIE GRAHM AND HUSBAND MIKE OF GRAND JUNCTION, CO. LISA GREEN AND HUSBAND J. J. OF SAN DIEGO, CA. GRANDSON: BRENT BRADFORD OF PAMPA, TX. 13 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. BROTHER: ADAM BRADFORD OF LANE, OK. SPECIAL NIECES: GENEVA BRYAN AND HELEN MCGRAW OF LANE, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY WIFE: CLARA BRADFORD ON MARCH 20, 1990. PARENTS: MACK AND NORA BRADFORD. SISTERS: MINNIE DURHAM, NETTIE MOATS, MENTIE BRADFORD, JEWEL BURLESON, AND MARY BRADFORD.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2001 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: IRON STOB PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH ~ LANE, OK. INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. BARTT BRADFORD. CASKETBEARERS: PAUL SILVERS, JASPER CROSS, WORDEN DETTY, BILL KING, DWYANE BRYAN, JACK HUMPHREY. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: NORMAN BRADFORD, LESTER BRADFORD, KENNETH EAVES, PINKY (D.P.) BURKHALTER, HARVEY HOGAN, CARL EAVES.