NAME: ORVILLE MARION BONHAM, AGE 70, LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY, OKLAHOMA RESIDENT.

BORN: NOVEMBER 17, 1926 AT ATOKA, OK TO ORVILLE CARL AND NOVELLA SUSIE (BURLESON) BONHAM. PASSED AWAY: MONDAY, JULY 14, 1997 AT HIS RESIDENCE EAST OF ATOKA. AGE: 70 YEARS 7 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED HARMONY SCHOOL. MARRIED: LILLIE MAE HARRIS ON SEPTEMBER 12, 1949 AT ATOKA, OK. OCCUPATION: HE WAS A MECHANIC. CHURCH AFFILIATION: IRON STOB PENTECOSTAL CHURCH AT LANE, OK. ORVILLE SERVED HIS COUNTRY IN THE U. S. ARMY DURING WORLD WAR II, ATTAINING THE RANK OF CORPORAL. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE D. A. V., WAS A BLUEGRASS FIDDLE PLAYER (KNOWN AS LONESOME FIDDLER). HE PLAYED BLUEGRASS CLASSIC AND OLD TIME COUNTRY MUSIC FOR MANY MANY YEARS THROUGHOUT OKLAHOMA AND SURROUNDING STATES. SURVIVED BY CHILDREN: SARAH ANN PHILLIPS AND HUSBAND MARVIN OF TECUMSEH, OK. GLEN DALE BONHAM AND WIFE PAM OF NORMAN, OK. VIRGIL LYNN BONHAM AND WIFE RHONDA OF OKARCHE, OK. YVETTE LEE ANN RYAN AND HUSBAND STEWART OF ADA, OK. 15 GRANDCHILDREN, 2 GREAT GRANDCHILDREN. SISTER: WANDA BONHAM OF ATOKA, OK. BROTHERS: OLIE V. BONHAM AND WIFE CALLIE OF OKLAHOMA CITY. BEN BONHAM AND WIFE NORMA OF TUSHKA, OK. SISTERS IN-LAW: DORIS BONHAM OF TUSHKA, OK. CARRIE BONHAM OF ATOKA, OK. UNCLE: AUDIE BURLESON OF ATOKA, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: ORVILLE AND NOVELLA BONHAM. BROTHER: CHESTER BONHAM. HALF BROTHERS: ZED AND OREN CARL BONHAM. HALF SISTER: MINNIE RAINS.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, JULY 17, 1997 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH. INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. BOB JOHNSON. CASKETBEARERS: CLIFFORD PARROT, FRED SANDERS, WAYNE RINKER, MICKEY FLATT, WAYNE PHILLIPS, MARK PHILLIPS. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BUD WILLIAMSON, LINC STILES, JOE WOOLF, CLIFFORD COATS, JIMMIE MANION.