NAME: JACK WALTON BLAKER, AGE 75, LONGTIME ATOKA RESIDENT.

BORN: AUGUST 22, 1922 AT ANTLERS, OK TO THOMAS ELEXANDER AND NANNIE KATHRYN (SURRETT) BLAKER. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, MARCH 8, 1998 AT WILSON N. JONES HOSPITAL, SHERMAN, TX. AGE: 75 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 16 DAYS EDUCATION: HE ATTENDED PRAIRIE VIEW SCHOOLS AND GRADUATED FROM STRATFORD HIGH SCHOOL IN 1941. MARRIED: ILA JUANITA CASE ON MARCH 20, 1949 AT ATOKA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN ATOKA, OK. OCCUPATION: A RETIRED MERCHANT, HE MANAGED SHARPE'S DRY GOODS IN SEMINOLE AND OKLAHOMA CITY. JACK OWNED AND OPERATED JACK'S MENS WEAR IN ATOKA FOR OVER 30 YEARS AND CURRENTLY OWNED THE ATOKA DOWNTOWN MALL. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF ATOKA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. JACK WAS RAISED ON A FARM IN THE PRAIRIE VIEW AREA, WHICH IS NEAR STRATFORD, OKLAHOMA. HE SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U. S. NAVY AS PHARMACIST'S MATE FIRST CLASS DURING WORLD WAR II. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE D.A.V., V.F.W. AMERICAN LEGION, MASONIC LODGE #4, ROD & GUN CLUB IN ATOKA. FORMER MEMBER OF THE KIWANIS & LION'S CLUB. SERVED AS PRESIDENT OF THE ATOKA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND WAS VOTED MAN OF THE YEAR IN ATOKA IN 1968. SURVIVED BY WIFE: JUANITA BLAKER OF THE HOME IN ATOKA, OK. CHILDREN: TERESA GAYE DODDERER AND HUSBAND FRANK DEWAIN OF VALLIANT, OK. REGINA KAYE HALL AND HUSBAND MICHAEL TERRY OF ADA, OK. TWYLA RAE DEUPREE OF ADA, OK. TERRELL JACK BLAKER AND WIFE BARBARA ANN OF CHEYENNE, WY. GRANDCHILDREN: JAY DEWAIN DODDERER OF VALLIANT, OK. JENNIFER GAYE FARLEY AND HUSBAND STANLEY SHAWN OF VALLIANT, OK. WHITNEY REBEKAH HALL OF ADA, OK. BETHANY KAITLIN HALL OF ADA, OK. TORRE LAYNE DEUPREE OF HOBBS, NM. TALIA RAE DEUPREE OF ADA, OK. LOGAN TERRELL BLAKER OF CHEYENNE, WY. BROTHER: HOMER HOWARD BLAKER AND WIFE TOMMIE JANE OF ATOKA, OK. SISTERS: GEORGIA LEE GARGIS OF OKLAHOMA CITY. RUTH MANN AND HUSBAND HARVEY OF MOORE, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: TOM AND NANNIE BLAKER. SISTER: ALCIE MCCARY. BROTHERS: ZANEY, ED, AND T. E. BLAKER.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1998 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: ATOKA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ~ ATOKA, OK. COMMITTAL SERVICE: WESTVIEW CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: FAMILY PLOT ON PINE TREE RANCH NEAR DAISY, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. JAMES CROWSON. ASSISTING: REV. BILL ELKINS CASKETBEARERS: RUSSELL LANE, DENNIS GRANGER, CHARLES JEFFERSON, MORRIS COCHRAN, DON BARNARD, JOE CROWLEY. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: GERALD VEGHER, KENNETH TURRENTINE, JACK BRODUS, MONROE ALLEN, KENNETH ROWE MOSER, LEONARD FREEMAN, JOE ALEXANDER, JACK PARKER, HOMER BARRETT, SAM STEEL.