NAME: LOIS (BEDINGFIELD) CALHOUN, AGE 89, A LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT AND FORMER MCALESTER RESIDENT. BORN: MAY 2, 1910 IN POCASSET, OK TO MILAS DAVID AND MOLLY (CAMPBELL) BEDINGFIELD. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, AUGUST 1, 1999 AT FOUR SEASONS NURSING HOME IN DURANT, OK. AGE: 89 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 29 DAYS EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT POCASSET AND CHICKASHA AND THE OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS IN CHICKASHA. SHE LATER GRADUATED FROM SOUTHEASTERN STATE TEACHERS COLLEGE IN DURANT. THROUGH HER YEARS SHE STUDIED ART AT SANTA FE AND TAOS, NM. MARRIED: J. B. CALHOUN ON DECEMBER 26, 1931 IN MCALESTER, OK. OCCUPATION: TAUGHT SCHOOL IN PITTSBURG COUNTY FOR MANY YEARS AND SUBSTITUTED AT HARMONY AND ATOKA. SHE WAS ALSO A HOMEMAKER. CHURCH AFFILIATION: A CHARTER MEMBER OF WESLEY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH IN MCALESTER. SERVED AS SECRETARY OF UNITED COUNCIL OF CHURCH WOMEN. SHE WAS PAST PRESIDENT OF THE MCALESTER FORTNIGHTLY CLUB ONE OF THE OLDEST FEDERATED CLUBS IN OKLAHOMA. SHE SERVED TWO TERMS AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH WOMENS ORGANIZATION AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE YELLOW ROSE GARDEN CLUB IN ATOKA. SURVIVED BY BROTHER: DAN BEDINGFIELD OF ALBUQURQUE, NM. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HUSBAND: J. B. CALHOUN ON JULY 8,1992. PARENTS: MILAS DAVID AND MOLLY BEDINGFIELD. AN INFANT SON. SEVERAL SISTERS AND BROTHERS.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, AUGUST 3, 1999 AT 4:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. RON KING. CASKETBEARERS: CARL HENDERSON, MIKE ELLIOTT, MIKE GRANGER, MIKE ADAIR, BOB FREDERICK, JUNIOR BRUCE. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: MEDFORD UNDERWOOD, BILL MOORE, DON BARNARD, PHILLIP MEAD, SHANNON REASOR.