NAME: ORVILLE EARNEST WALLER, AGE 64, A LONGTIME CENTERPOINT AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: JULY 27, 1937 AT DARWIN, OKLAHOMA TO JAMES ELMER AND BEULAH ESTELLE (NANCE) WALLER.

PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 2001 AT HIS CENTERPOINT RESIDENCE. AGE: 64 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 26 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT SUGARLOAF AND CENTERPOINT, BOTH IN ATOKA COUNTY.

MARRIED: MARY KATHERINE TAYLOR ON MAY 26, 1966 AT ATOKA, OK.

OCCUPATION: ORVILLE WAS A FARMER & RANCHER AND WORKED 17 YEARS IN ALASKA AS A DRILLER. HE OWNED AND OPERATED A TRACTOR AND EQUIPMENT REPAIR BUSINESS AND DID CUSTOM HAY BALING.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: ATTENDED CENTERPOINT FREEWILL BAPTIST CHURCH. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE ATOKA COUNTY FARM BUREAU.

SURVIVED BY

WIFE: MARY OF THE HOME NEAR CENTERPOINT.

SONS: RICKY TAYLOR AND WIFE HOLLY. JAMES WALLER AND WIFE CONNIE.

DAUGHTERS: DIANE HEMBREE AND HUSBAND MIKE. LAWANA HAMRICK AND HUSBAND TED. TAMME WALLER AND PARTNER NAOMI. KIM SEAL AND HUSBAND BILL.

GRANDCHILDREN: LIZ, SHAWNA, KATIE, DALTON, CODY, TORY, CORY, AND GLEN.

GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: TYLER, DILLAN, AND KALEB.

SISTERS: SYLVIA DAFFRON. BECKY FOWLER.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: ELMER AND BEULAH WALLER. GRANDSON: DERRICK TAYLOR. BROTHERS: ED WALLER, A. J. WALLER, CLAUDE WALLER, FREDDIE WALLER, AND LEROY WALLER. SISTERS: JEWEL BARNHART AND SUSIE WALLER.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2001 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: DARWIN CEMETERY, EAST OF FARRIS, OK.

OFFICIATING: LARRY MORRIS. ASSISTING: REV. WALTER ARNOLD.

CASKETBEARERS: BUD SUTTON, GEARL HARPER, DARRELL COATS, CHRIS TREE, HARVEY ARNOLD, EDDIE THOMPSON.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: VELMA GRIFFIN, HANK GRIFFIN, HERMAN ARNOLD, JOHN BRANDON, ELWOOD NELSON, JACK WORK.