NAME: GARY RUSSELL SCOTT VENABLE, AGE 53, OF THE STRINGTOWN AREA.

BORN: FEBRUARY 24, 1947 AT HOUSTON, TEXAS TO IRA THOMAS AND JACKIE (HUGHES) VENABLE. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, MAY 21, 2000 NEAR STRINGTOWN, OK. AGE: 53 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT ATOKA GRADUATING IN 1968. OCCUPATION: HE WAS A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER WITH THE MACK ALFORD CORRECTIONAL CENTER NEAR STRINGTOWN. HE HELD THE RANK OF CORPORAL. CHURCH AFFILIATION: GARY WAS OF BAPTIST FAITH. SURVIVED BY THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE: PATRICIA ELROD WINN OF THE HOME NEAR STRINGTOWN, OK. MOTHER: JACKIE EINKAUF COGBURN AND HUSBAND WILLIE J. OF CRYSTAL, OK. SON: KENNETH WAYNE VENABLE OF HOUSTON, TX. ADOPTED DAUGHTERS: SHEILA GILES OF PARIS, TX. HEATHER HEGWER OF CONWAY, AR. GRANDCHILDREN: MICHAEL GILES, ASHLEY HEGWER, AND BLAKE HEGWER. BROTHER: DANNY DAVILA OF BROWNSVILLE, TX. SISTERS: BEVERLY L. MCDANIELS OF WILLIS, TX. CYNTHIA EINKAUF MEADOR OF LIVINGSTON, TX. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY FATHER: ALVIN J. EINKAUF. BROTHER: JOHN MARK EINKAUF.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, MAY 23, 2000 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: CRYSTAL CEMETERY ~ CRYSTAL, OK. OFFICIATING: BRO. GLEN COOK. CASKETBEARERS: JIM PHILLIPS, EDDIE HYATT, MARVIN DALE, HEATH DAVIDSON, BRAD THOMAS, ANTHONY CLAYTON, LEWIS MCGEE, EDMOND JACOBS.