NAME: FRANCES ISOBEL (FOOTE) SCARBER, AGE 79, A LONGTIME ATOKA RESIDENT.

BORN: DECEMBER 11, 1921 AT POTEAU, OKLAHOMA TO ARTHUR FRANCIS AND ELIZABETH VIRGINIA (LEWIS) FOOTE.

PASSED AWAY: WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 2001 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 79 YEARS 12 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOL AT POTEAU - SHE WAS THE ONLY GIRL IN THE POTEAU BOYS MARCHING BAND. AFTER 25 YEARS, SHE CONTINUED HER EDUCATION BY GOING BACK TO HIGH SCHOOL, GRADUATING FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1965 AT AGE 43 AND MAKING STRAIGHT AS. SHE ALSO ATTENDED BACONE COLLEGE IN MUSKOGEE, GRADUATING WITH AN R. N. DEGREE.

MARRIED: HOGAN THURMAN SCARBER ON MAY 9, 1954 AT PANAMA, OK.

OCCUPATION: MINISTER AND R. N. SHE STARTED HER MINISTRY AT AGE 16. SHE AND HER HUSBAND PASTORED MANY CHURCHES IN OKLAHOMA, TEXAS, AND KENTUCKY, INCLUDING BLACKJACK PENTECOSTAL AND MOUNTAIN VIEW PENTECOSTAL. SHE OWNED AND OPERATED SCARBER NURSING HOME IN ATOKA FOR MANY YEARS. SHE WAS DIRECTOR OF NURSING WHEN ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL OPENED. SHE WORKED MANY YEARS AT SEVERAL HOSPITALS AND NURSING HOMES IN OKLAHOMA, THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS AT COLONIAL MANOR.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: SHE WAS A MEMBER OF PENTECOSTAL CHURCH OF GOD, MOUNTAIN VIEW FOR MANY YEARS.

FRANCES WROTE THE MOUNTAIN VIEW NEWS FOR THE ATOKA COUNTY TIMES. SHE WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF PENTECOSTAL LADIES ORGANIZATION AND MEMBER OF THE OKLAHOMA NURSING HOME ASSOCIATION.

SURVIVED BY

HUSBAND: REV. HOGAN SCARBER OF THEIR HOME IN ATOKA, OK.

CHILDREN: JOHNNIE LEE THOMPSON AND WIFE LENELL OF ROWLETT, TX. JAMES ALFRED THOMPSON AND WIFE DOROTHY OF MCALESTER, OK. THELMA FRANCIS WALKER AND HUSBAND BOB OF COUNCE, TN. JUANITA BOUNDS OF NORMAN, OK.

13 GRANDCHILDREN, 13 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: ARTHUR AND ELIZABETH FOOTE. CHILDREN: THURMAN SCARBER AND LAVERNE BRUEHL. GRANDSON: LARRY DON KIRK. SON-IN-LAW: GLEN BOUNDS. 8 SISTERS. 3 BROTHERS. 1 GREAT GRANDCHILD.

DATE OF SERVICES: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2001 AT 10:00 AM. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. LEON MCDOWELL. ASSISTING: REV. BOB MCCLOUGH.

CASKETBEARERS: ROBERT WALKER, STEPHEN THOMPSON, JOHN THOMPSON, RICHARD THOMPSON, GEORGE FIALA, JONATHAN SMITH.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: TYLER BOUNDS, OWEN PRATER, CLINT BOONE, JOHNNY FAULKENBERRY, RICHARD BOND.