NAME: GLADYS PAULINE (HINK) SPROUSE, AGE 77, A LONGTIME CENTRAHOMA-TUPELO RESIDENT.

BORN: FEBRUARY 6, 1926 AT TUPELO, OK TO JOHN W. AND MARY JANE (WHITELY) HINK. PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY MORNING, JUNE 10, 2003 AT VALLEY VIEW REGIONAL HOSPITAL IN ADA, OK. AGE: 77 YEARS 4 MONTHS AND 4 DAYS.

EDUCATION: PAULINE ATTENDED TUPELO, OK SCHOOLS.

MARRIED: HORACE A. SPROUSE IN AUGUST, 1947 IN COLORADO.

OCCUPATION: PAULINE WAS A PHONE OPERATOR WITH SOUTHWESTERN BELL FOR OVER 26 YEARS IN ADA AND OKLAHOMA CITY, RETIRING IN 1987

CHURCH AFFILIATION: LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE TUPELO METHODIST CHURCH.

SURVIVED BY

SON: JOHN SPROUSE OF NORMAN, OK.

GRANDCHILDREN: SCOTT SPROUSE OF NEVADA, TX. AMY HUTCHESON OF PAULS VALLEY, OK. MISTY ANDREWS OF SCHULTER, OK. CARL D. SPROUSE, JR. OF FT. HOOD, TX.

GREAT GRANDCHIDREN: CHANDLER SPROUSE OF NEVADA, TX. OLIVIA AND TIM HUTCHESON OF PAULS VALLEY, OK. DAKOTA ANDREWS OF SCHULTER, OK.

BROTHER: THEES HINK OF TUPELO, OK.

SISTERS: MARY LOUISE MELTON OF PUYALLUP, WA. EULA MAE JENNY OF SHAWNEE, OK. KATHRYN RISNER OF ADA, OK.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

HUSBAND: HORACE SPROUSE IN 1989. PARENTS: JOHN W. AND MARY JANE HINK. SON: C. D. SPROUSE. SISTERS: WILMA CULVER AND RACHEL GREER. BROTHERS: GARLAND AND BILL HINK.

DATE OF SERVICES: SATURDAY, JUNE 14, 2003 AT 10:00 AM. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ TUPELO, OK.

INTERMENT: CENTRAHOMA CEMETERY ~ CENTRAHOMA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. DAVID BOGGS.

CASKETBEARERS: ELDON HOGUE, EDDIE HOGUE, JEFFREY HOGUE, RANDY LOVELL, RICK ELLIS, KERRY SUTTON.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: HENRY SINGLETON, RALPH SPROUSE.