NAME: FRAN (JONES) TAYLOR, AGE 58, A LONGTIME ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: SEPTEMBER 20, 1944 IN COAL COUNTY TO JEFF ELMORE AND INOLA MAYE (JACKSON) JONES. PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2002 AT THE BAPTIST MEDICAL CENTER IN OKLAHOMA CITY. AGE: 58 YEARS AND 14 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOLS IN CARLSBAD, NEW MEXICO AND OLNEY, OKLAHOMA. SHE GRADUATED FROM MURRAY STATE WITH HONORS AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE PHI BETA KAPPA AND ATTENDED EAST CENTRAL STATE IN ADA, OK.

OCCUPATION: FRAN OWNED AND OPERATED FRANS BEAUTY BOUTIQUE IN ATOKA AND WORKED A NUMBER OF YEARS AS AN EMT WITH THE JOHNSON COUNTY AMBULANCE SERVICE IN TISHOMINGO, OK.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: THE CHURCH OF GOD IN WAPANUCKA AND WAS VERY ACTIVE IN HER CHURCH WORK. SHE SANG AND PLAYED PIANO FOR MANY WEDDINGS AND FUNERALS THROUGH THE YEARS.

SURVIVED BY

HUSBAND: RAYMOND TAYLOR OF THE HOME AT ATOKA, OK.

MOTHER: INOLA JONES OF ATOKA, OK.

CHILDREN: SHEILA HAYDEN AND HUSBAND DARIN OF ADA, OK. GWIN PETEET OF ANADARKO, OK. MALISA SWEENEY OF ADA, OK. TAMMY HATTER AND HUSBAND ERIC OF PITTSBURG, PA. CRISTY TAYLOR OF ATOKA, OK.

GRANDCHILDREN: T. C. LOWE, STEPHANIE LOWE, JACLYN JOHNSON, HOLLY JOHNSON, AUSTIN PETEET, JOHN RAYMOND PARKER, NICHOLAS SWEENEY, EMILY HATTER, HOLLAND BROWN, AND A GREAT GRANDCHILD MALCOLM TAYLOR PETEET TO BE BORN SOON.

BROTHERS: BILL JONES AND WIFE PAM OF ELK CITY, OK. IRLAND JONE AND WIFE KATY OF COALGATE, OK. JOE JONES OF ATOKA, OK. FRANK JONES OF ELK CITY, OK. TROY JONES AND WIFE JOYCE OF CALIFORNIA.

SISTER: VAUDINE STEPHENSON AND HUSBAND JACK OF CALIFORNIA.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

FATHER: JEFF JONES. SON: MICHAEL RAYMOND TAYLOR. BROTHER: OTHEL MACAJAH.

DATE OF SERVICE: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 2002 AT 2:00 PM. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: ROSE HILL CEMETERY ~ WAPANUCKA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REVEREND CLAUDE BUIE.

CASKETBEARERS: MICHAEL JONES, BILLY JONES, JAMES JONES, JOE JONES, IRLAND KEITH JONES, JASON JONES, JOHN JONES, JACOB JONES.