NAME: KENNETH EUGENE KEN SLAWSON, AGE 68, OF ATOKA, OK.

BORN: AUGUST 15, 1932 AT LAMAR, HUGHES COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TO JAMES LUTHER AND LILLIAN ELENA (WHITFIELD) SLAWSON. PASSED AWAY: FOUND AT HIS HOME ON MONDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 2000. AGE: 68 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS. EDUCATION: HE ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT HULOWE, WEST OF MCALESTER, OKLAHOMA. MARRIED: CYNTHIA FINCH MAY 7, 1956 AT MCALESTER, OKLAHOMA. OCCUPATION: KEN WAS RETIRED MILITARY WITH OVER 22 YEARS OF SERVICE. HE OWNED AND OPERATED KENCO MANUFACTURING COMPANY FOR 11 YEARS AND HE WAS A HORSE RANCHER AND BREEDER. KEN SERVED IN THE KOREAN WAR AND WAS ACCEPTED TO THE NAVY'S FIRST NUCLEAR SCHOOL, WAS ON THE UNDERWATER DEMOLITION TEAM AND WAS A NUCLEAR INSTRUCTOR. HE RETIRED FROM THE NAVY A MASTER CHIEF PETTY OFFICER. KEN WAS ALSO A LONGTIME MEMBER OF ATOKA ELKS LODGE, WAS CURRENTLY EXALTED RULER AND HAD PREVIOUSLY SERVED A NUMBER OF YEARS AS E.R. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN QUARTER HORSE ASSOCIATION AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE AMERICAN CUTTING HORSE ASSOCIATION. HE ALSO JUDGED MANY QUARTER HORSE SHOWS. SURVIVED BY CHILDREN: CINDY MEAD AND HUSBAND PHILIP OF ATOKA, OK. PAM BENSON AND HUSBAND DENNIS OF DERBY, KS. RON SLAWSON AND WIFE PAULLA OF DURANT, OK. KENNY SLAWSON AND WIFE STACY OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: VANESSA BENSON, KASEY MEAD, CHARLIE SLAWSON, TARYN BENSON, TYLER SLAWSON, LAUREN MEAD, SOPHIE SLAWSON, MADISON SLAWSON, AND LEXIE SLAWSON. FORMER WIFE: CYNTHIA ANDERSON OF ATOKA, OK. SISTERS: ESTELLE EPPS AND HUSBAND ALVIN OF ROSAMOND, CA. BOBBIE LEFLORE OF MCALESTER, OK. JOYCE DEFLORIN OF MCALESTER, OK. KARLEEN WEBB AND HUSBAND DON OF MCALESTER, OK. TONA HICKMAN OF HOUSTON, TX. AUNT: PEARL GANN OF LAMAR, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: JAMES AND LILLIAN SLAWON.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2000 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: TUSHKA CEMETERY ~ TUSHKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. JOHN HOWARD. CASKETBEARERS: JUNIOR RILEY, PAUL ALLEN, PAUL KOSELL, RICK UMSTEAD, JOHNNY SELF, CHARLES FINCH, GARY MCCOOL, MORRIS COCHRAN. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: WALTER KARR, WILL GOODWIN, ABBOTT JONES, DON RIPPEE, KEN TURRENTINE, FARRIS SELF, GARRY MARSHALL, TOM HYDE.