OBITUARY NAME: MEDFORD BELTON UNDERWOOD AGE 89 AN ATOKA AREA RESIDENT SINCE 1952. BORN: ON AUGUST 5, 1918 TO FRANK UNDERWOOD AND HETTIE MEDFORD UNDERWOOD AT PAINT CREEK, HASKELL COUNTY, TEXAS PASSED AWAY: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 7, 2008 AT HIS RESIDENCE IN ATOKA AGE: 89 YEARS 6 MONTHS 2 DAYS EDUCATION: MEDFORD ATTENDED HOWARD GRADE SCHOOL AND STANFORD HIGH SCHOOL. HE THEN ATTENDED JOHN TARLTON JR. COLLEGE AND TEXAS A&M AND ALSO REAL ESTATE AND APPRAISAL SCHOOLS. MARRIED: HE MARRIED PAULINE RHOADES ON AUGUST 24, 1947 AT WHEELOCK, TX. OCCUPATION: MEDFORD WAS A RANCHER AND OWNED AND OPERATED UNDERWOOD REAL ESTATE AND UNDERWOOD INSURANCE AGENCY FOR 34 YEARS. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEDFORD WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. A LONGTIME GREETER AND MEMBER OF THE CHURCH BOARD. HE WAS ALSO A MEMBER OF ATOKA LIONS CLUB AND CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. HE LOVED HORSES AND RANCHING AND GOING TO THE COFFEE SHOP. SURVIVED BY WIFE: PAULINE UNDERWOOD OF THE HOME 2 DAUGHTERS: JUDY THOMAS AND HUSBAND TOMMY OF ATOKA JANIS UNDERWOOD OF ATOKA GRANDCHILDREN: STEPHANE STEPHENS OF ATOKA MINDY CAMPBELL AND HUSBAND JASON OF CALERA, OK KATE LITTAU AND HUSBAND TYSON OF WOODWARD, OK STACY STANFORD OF CALERA, OK GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: TAYLOR STEPHENS, TORI STEPHENS, TANNAH STEPHENS, TYLER CAMPBELL, WYATT CAMPBELL, COOPER LITTAU, AND JOSIE LITTAU TO ARRIVE VERY SOON. NEPHEW: JACKIE HAMMER OF ABILENE, TX NIECE: PANSY KOENIG OF MUNDAY, TX ALONG WITH NUMEROUS OTHER RELATIVES AND MANY VERY DEAR AND LOVED FRIENDS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: FRANK AND HETTIE UNDERWOOD SISTER: NEVADA HAMMER BROTHER IN LAW: COLIN HAMMER IN LAWS: ALVIN AND SALLIE RHOADES ************************************************************************************************************ DATE OF SERVICE: SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 2008 AT 10:00 AM PLACE OF SERVICE: FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH. PLACE OF BURIAL: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY, ATOKA, OK. OFFICATING: DON FORSMAN ASSISTING: BOB LANGSTON CASKETBEARERS: MIKE ELLIOTT, MASON MUNGLE, GLEN MITCHELL, LARRY PRUITT, BOB DANIEL, JOE DANIEL HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DON BARNARD, CHARLES MCKEE, JERRY STEPHENS, JUNIOR BRUCE, CLARK MCENTIRE, DON & RUTH MACALLISTER, KERMIT & RUBY BROWN, CINDI WILLIAMS, DON & RUBY FORSMAN, FREDDA NORMAN, KERRI ROBERSON, IRMA RAINS FAMILY NIGHT WILL BE, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2008 FROM 6 TO 8 P.M. CONDOLENCES MAY BE SENT TO THE FAMILY BY EMAIL TO: BROWNS@ATOKA.NET. PLEASE REFERENCE THE NAME OF THE DECEASED IN YOUR CORRESPONDENCE. SERVICES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF BROWN'S FUNERAL SERVICE - ATOKA, OK