NAME: HAROLD LEE COATS, AGE 51, A LIFELONG ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: AUGUST 10, 1950 AT LANE TO CLIFFORD H. TEENCE AND LUCILLE (BURKHALTER) COATS. PASSED AWAY: MONDAY, JULY 15, 2002 NEAR STRINGTOWN, OK FROM INJURIES RECEIVED IN AUTO VS TRAIN ACCIDENT. AGE: 51 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 5 DAYS.

EDUCATION: HAROLD ATTENDED SCHOOL AT IRON STOB AND LANE AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1968. HE CONTINUED HIS EDUCATION AT EASTERN OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY AT WILBURTON. MARRIED: FLORA JEAN SMITH ON OCTOBER 11, 1969 AT LANE, OK. OCCUPATION: HAROLD WAS A CATTLEMAN AND WORKED 15 YEARS FOR OKLAHOMA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE AS A WILDLIFE TECHNICIAN AND HE WORKED A NUMBER OF YEARS FOR THE OKLAHOMA FISH HATCHERY AT DURANT.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF STRINGTOWN BAPTIST CHURCH. HAROLD WAS ALSO INVOLVED IN THE YOUTH WILDLIFE HUNTS.

SURVIVED BY

WIFE: FLORA OF THEIR HOME NEAR STRINGTOWN, OK.

CHILDREN: CINDY FAULKENBERRY AND HUSBAND BUDDY OF ATOKA, OK. CHAD COATS OF LANE, OK. CARI SUTTON AND HUSBAND JAMES OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

GRANDCHILDREN: CHELSI, CAMRI, AND CANDICE FAULKENBERRY OF ATOKA, OK. HUNTER AND BLAYNE COATS OF CANEY, OK. CONNOR AND JILLIAN SUTTON OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

BROTHER: DARRELL COATS AND WIFE SHARON OF LANE, OK.

SISTER: SHARON HOOK AND HUSBAND MIKE OF TUSHKA, OK.

IN-LAWS: BOB AND FAYE SMITH OF ATOKA, OK.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: TEENCE AND LUCILLE COATS.

DATE OF SERVICE: THURSDAY, JULY 18, 2002 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICE: BROWNS FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. LOYD THOMPSON. ASSISTING: REV. JOHN HOWARD.

CASKETBEARERS: DON RITTER, DONNIE ALLEN, GERALD EAVES, GARY MCCOOL, JOHNNY FAULKENBERRY, JAMES DEATON, KARL GOODSON, LARRY EAVES.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BUDDY PRATHER, TOM SHERRARD, JOE YOUNG, JERRY SEBRING, BOBBY BOONE, STEVE PEBWORTH, RAY ROBINSON, BUDDY LEWIS, CODY FROST, HARRY FARRIS, ROY BOATNER, ROGER JONES.