NAME: MARGARET ELIZABETH (MAXEY) HAMES, AGE 90, A LONGTIME ATOKA RESIDENT.

BORN: JULY 9, 1909 AT PORT LAVACA, TEXAS TO JUDGE JOHN BENTON AND ELZONA (SELBY) MAXEY. PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 28, 1999 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 90 YEARS 5 MONTHS AND 19 DAYS. EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1926, 2 YEARS AT OBU AND RECEIVED HER BACHELOR OF ARTS DEGREE AND LATER HER MASTERS IN EDUCATION FROM SOUTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY AT DURANT. SHE ALSO ATTENDED LIBRARIAN SCHOOL AT OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY. MARRIED: VIRGIL OTIS HAMES ON JUNE 27, 1936 IN ATOKA, OK. OCCUPATION: A TEACHER AND LIBRARIAN; MARGARET TAUGHT OVER 44 YEARS, BEGINNING HER CAREER AT VALLIANT AND LATER SHE TAUGHT AT ATOKA UNTIL HER RETIREMENT IN 1974. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MARGARET WAS BAPTIZED AND BECAME A MEMBER OF THE ATOKA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ON OCTOBER 5, 1927. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ESTHER SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS, THE PIONEER CLUB, THE FRIDAY AND RETIRED TEACHERS BRIDGE CLUBS AND THE ATOKA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SURVIVED BY DAUGHTER: HELEN ANN SHARP OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDDAUGHTERS: MELISSA C. TIDWELL AND HUSBAND DARREN OF MADILL, OK. MOLLY ALBERDA AND HUSBAND HOWARD OF ATOKA, OK. MAXEY PARKER OF ATOKA, OK. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: IAN NAYLOR AND PARKER TIDWELL OF MADILL, OK. TAYLOR ALBERDA OF ATOKA, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HUSBAND: VIRGIL HAMES IN JULY, 1946. PARENTS: JUDGE JOHN BENTON AND ELZONA MAXEY. BROTHER: BENTON RICE MAXEY ON JUNE 24, 1917.

DATE OF SERVICES: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1999 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: ATOKA FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH. INTERMENT: WESTVIEW CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. JOE DEE RAY CASKETBEARERS: CHARLES MCCALL, MORRIS COCHRAN, BOB PRAYTOR, JIM MIXON, CLIFFORD BROWN, GENE VIETTA, GLEN THOMASON. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BARNEY MCCALL, BOB CATES, VERNE BRIGGS, DR. DON PARHAM, OLEN CURRY, VICTOR DOWNING, LON FINK, REV. ANSON JUSTICE, ROBERT PLUMLEE, J. D. VOTO.