NAME: MELVIN KENNETH  BUCK DELOACH , AGE 82, A LONGTIME COALGATE RESIDENT. BORN: MARCH 25, 1921 NEAR THE PARKER COMMUNITY IN COAL COUNTY TO WILLIAM MIDDLETON AND LILLIE MAE (ARMER) DELOACH. PASSED AWAY: SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 2004 AT THE ST. JOHNS HOSPITAL IN TULSA, OK. AGE: 82 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 25 DAYS EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM COALGATE WITH THE CLASS OF 1939 AND ATTENDED OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY. MARRIED: GLORIA LOVELLA SPARKS ON MAY 27, 1949 AT KERMIT, TX. OCCUPATION: BUCK WORKED MANY YEARS AS AN OILFIELD MUD ENGINEER. AFTER COMING BACK TO COALGATE HE SERVED AS THE DIRECTOR OF THE BIG FIVE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAM FROM 1968 TO 1978. CHURCH AFFILIATION: BUCK WAS A LONGTIME BAPTIST. HE LOVED CAMPING, BEING WITH HIS GRANDCHILDREN AND HANGING OUT AT THE COFFEE SHOPS. BUCK WAS A 32ND DEGREE MASON. SURVIVED BY WIFE: LOVELLA OF THE HOME IN COALGATE, OK. DAUGHTERS: DARLA DAVENPORT AND HUSBAND TONY OF WEATHERFORD, OK. DARITA HUCKABEE AND HUSBAND BRIAN OF TULSA DONNA DELOACH OF COLORADO SPRINGS, CO. GRANDCHILDREN: MATTHEW DAVENPORT, OKLAHOMA CITY. MEGAN DAVENPORT OF WEATHERFORD, OK. NATHAN DAVENPORT OF WEATHERFORD, OK. MARY PAGE HUCKABEE OF TULSA, OK. ALEX DELOACH HUCKABEE OF TULSA, OK. SISTERS: DAVETTA CAUTHRON OF COALGATE, OK. JEAN BRADLEY OF COALGATE, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: WILLIAM AND LILLIE DELOACH. SISTERS: NEVADA, UNA MAE, AND VANETTA. BROTHERS: OTHO, ENID, AND BILLY CHARLES.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2004 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: COTTONWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH. INTERMENT: COALGATE CITY CEMETERY. OFFICIATING: REV. BILL WEATHERS. ASSISTING: REV. MATT SMITH. CASKETBEARERS: CLABBER MCCLELLAN, E. C. MARTIN, WALTER LEE HOGUE, JOHN D. WARD, MICHAEL ELKINS, GARY MARTIN, JIM WILSON, W.C. PULLIAM. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: ERNEST HOFMAN, BOBBY LEE GEORGE, KEN MCENTIRE, CARL MCENTIRE, ERNEST PAUL FANNING.