NAME: JERRAH ELLEN (MEADERS) FAIRLESS, AGE 89, A LIFELONG COALGATE AREA RESIDENT. BORN: FEBRUARY 25, 1915 AT HASKELL, OK TO WILLIAM FRANK AND CORA MAY (DARNELL) MEADERS. PASSED AWAY: THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 2004 AT COALGATE, OK. AGE: 89 YEARS 5 MONTHS 6 DAYS EDUCATION: ATTENDED COALGATE SCHOOLS. MARRIED: RANDEL O. FAIRLESS ON FEBRUARY 1, 1935 AT COALGATE, OK. OCCUPATION: IN HER YOUNGER LIFE SHE WORKED AT THE U.S. NAVAL AMMUNITION DEPOT IN MCALESTER, OK IN THE 1940'S. LATER IN LIFE SHE WORKED AT WRANGLER FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND THEN BACK TO HELPING RANDEL, HER HUSBAND, RUN THE RANCH. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF THE CHURCH OF CHRIST FOR OVER 60 YEARS AT ASHLAND & LATER WITH THE COALGATE CONGREGATION. SHE WAS AN AVID GARDENER AND LOVED TO CAN AND FREEZE LIKE NO ONE ELSE. SURVIVED BY SON: HARLEN FAIRLESS AND WIFE LILA JUNE OF COALGATE, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: KAY GOLLIHARE AND HUSBAND DONNIE OF PANAMA, OK. KAREN MCCOLLUM AND HUSBAND ALEX OF HOUSTON, TX. RAY FAIRLESS AND WIFE JOY OF PANAMA, OK. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: BRANDI BURRIS AND HUSBAND JOSH OF COALGATE, OK. JACOB BIERNACKI AND FIANC LEANN OF PANAMA, OK. ERICK FAIRLESS AND WIFE MISTY OF PANAMA, OK. CHRIS GOLLIHARE OF PANAMA, OK. KATIE MCCOLLUM OF HOUSTON, TX. GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: ISSAC & ANDY BURRIS OF COALGATE, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: WILL (OCTOBER, 1988) AND CORA MAY (AUGUST 15, 1969) MEADERS. HUSBAND: RANDEL FAIRLESS ON AUGUST 1, 2000. BROTHER: FRANK MEADERS ON NOVEMBER 17, 1994.

DATE OF SERVICE: SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2004 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICE: COALGATE CHURCH OF CHRIST. INTERMENT: COALGATE CEMETERY. OFFICIATING: MR. LLOYD MCELHANEY. CASKETBEARERS: CHRIS GOLLIHARE, RAY FAIRLESS, ERIC FAIRLESS, JOSH BURRIS, JACOB BIERNACKI, ALEX MCCOLLUM.