NAME: ELBERT V.DOC MCKEEHEN, AGE 90, LONGTIME RESIDENT OF ATOKA COUNTY.

BORN: NOVEMBER 25, 1906 AT TISHOMINGO, OK INDIAN TERRITORY TO ELBERT PLES AND HATTIE (MCGEE) MCKEEHEN. PASSED AWAY: SATURDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 27, 1997 AT COLONIAL LIVING CENTER, ATOKA. AGE: 90 YEARS 10 MONTHS AND 2 DAYS EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT BROMIDE AND TISHOMINGO, OK. MARRIED: NEVER MARRIED. OCCUPATION: RETIRED PAINTER AND FURNITURE REFINISHER, HE WORKED IN THE SHIPYARDS IN CALIFORNIA DURING THE WORLD WAR II. MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, ATOKA, OK. SURVIVED BY NIECES: JO (THOMPSON) WELCH OF DALLA, TX. SUSIE (THOMPSON) GATES OF DALLAS, TX. CHERYL, BEATRICE AND NEDRA KAY MCKEEHEN. NEPHEWS: KENNETH AND JIMMY MCKEEHEN. GREAT NIECES AND NEPHEWS: ANDREA WELCH RYAN OF NAVASOTA, TX. JOHN MARK WELCH OF DALLAS, TX. DESIREE (WELCH) SCHORN OF DALLAS, TX. STEVEN F. WELCH OF DALLAS, TX. RUSS GATES OF DALLAS, TX. DAVID GATES OF DALLAS, TX. 4 GREAT GREAT NEPHEWS, 7 GREAT GREAT NIECES, 1 GREAT GREAT GREAT NIECE. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: ELBERT AND HATTIE MCKEEHEN. SISTER: BERTHA LEE THOMPSON. BROTHERS: ORBREY AND JIMMY MCKEEHEN.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1997 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK . OFFICIATING: REV. BOB JOHNSON. CASKETBEARERS: MARVIN ESTES, HERMAN PARKER, LARRY PARKER, TED COPELAND, RON MCGUE, ROY COOPER. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: MAX COPELAND, C.W. BILLS, BARNEY MCCALL, DALE WILSON, ROBERT EARL UMSTEAD.