NAME: FAUSTER ISOM LOVELACE, AGE 86, A LIFETIME ATOKA CAUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: SEPTEMBER 13, 1914 AT BENTLEY, OK TO SHELBY ISOM AND BELLE Z. (TUCKER) LOVELACE. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 17, 2000 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 86 YEARS 3 MONTHS AND 4 DAYS EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1934 AND ATTENDED SOUTHEASTERN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE IN DURANT, OK. MARRIED: MAXINE GROSS ON JUNE 18, 1937 AT ATOKA, OK. OCCUPATION: FAUSTER TAUGHT SCHOOL SOME 5 YEARS AT TUSHKA AND ATOKA. HE WENT TO WORK FOR PUBLIC SERVICE COMPANY IN 1941 AND RETIRED IN 1978 AS DISTRICT MANAGER. CHURCH AFFILIATION: A LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE ATOKA FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WHERE HE SERVED ON THE ADMINISTRATIVE BOARD, BOARD OF TRUSTEES, SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND HE AND MAXINE WERE SPONSORS OF THE M.Y. F. YOUTH GROUP.. FAUSTER WAS A BOY SCOUT MASTER SOME 13 YEARS. HE SERVED AS ATOKA CITY MANAGER A SHORT WHILE, HE WAS FIRE CHIEF SOME 17 YEARS WITH 20 YEARS SERVICE WITH THE FIRE DEPT. HE SERVED ON THE ATOKA SCHOOL BOARD AND WAS THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE ATOKA JUNIOR CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND WAS A SPONSOR OF THE ATOKA TEEN TOWN. HE HAD BEEN A MEMBER OF THE ATOKA MASONIC LODGE #4. SURVIVED BY WIFE: MAXINE LOVELACE OF THE HOME IN ATOKA, OK. DAUGHTER: KAREN PRICE AND HUSBAND BUCK OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: KIMBERLY BICKLEY OF CEDAR PARK, TX. KEVIN KRAHN OF AUSTIN, TX. GREAT GRANDDAUGHTER: JASMINE HARGRAVE OF CEDAR PARK, TX. BROTHER IN-LAW: JACK GROSS AND WIFE BETTY OF KALISPELL, MT. NIECE: PAULA WELCH OF TULSA, OK. NEPHEW: BRYAN GROSS OF TULSA, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: SHELBY AND BELLE LOVELACE. INFANT DAUGHTER: CHERYL ANN LOVELACE.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 20, 2000 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: WESTVIEW CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. RON KING. CASKETBEARERS: BILL GOFORTH, VIRGIL CRAWFORD, JOHN PROCTOR, BILL ROGERS, MARK MANION, DAVID DOWNING. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: JOHN D. FAULKENBERRY, MAX COPELAND, MOZELLE PROCTOR, SUE ROGERS, HARVEY CAPPS, JUNIOR BRUCE, BILL FLOWERS, DON BARNARD, JOE GRIFFIN.