NAME: QUEEN ESTHER (EVANS) KIRK, AGE 86, A LIFELONG STRINGTOWN RESIDENT.

BORN: JULY 15, 1917 AT STRINGTOWN TO JESSIE AND LEONA (MANNINGS) EVANS.

PASSED AWAY: SATURDAY, JUNE 12, 2004 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 86 YEARS 10 MONTHS AND 27 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED SCHOOL AT STRINGTOWN, OK.

MARRIED: CHARLES BUDDY KIRK ON JANUARY 21, 1935 AT STRINGTOWN, OK.

OCCUPATION: A HOMEMAKER AND HOUSEWIFE.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE MILES CHAPEL CME METHODIST CHURCH, WHERE SHE SERVED AS STEWARDESS AND MISSIONARY TREASURER.

SHE WAS AN AVID GARDENER AND LOVED TO FISH, QUILT, SEW AND COOK AND LOVED GOING AND VISITING FRIENDS, NEIGHBORS AND FAMILY.

SURVIVED BY

DAUGHTER: JEWEL COLBERT OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

GRANDDAUGHTER: REGINA CHEADLE AND HUSBAND MCKINLEY OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: GREG COLBERT AND JESSICA, JEREMY CHEADLE, AND GINKINA CHEADLE.

GREAT GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: MALCOM, DONTE, BRYCE, ANDRE, DENISHA, KELCEY, AND OLIVIA CHEADLE, J. C. .JEWEL COLBERT, CHRISTIANA COLBERT, AND TRISTEN ELLIOTT.

BROTHER: ARTHUR RAY EVANS OF LOS ANGELES, CA.

SPECIAL NEPHEW: RODNEY BROWN OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

SPECIAL FRIEND: GAIL HAGGARD OF STRINGTOWN, OK.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

PARENTS: JESSIE AND LEONA EVANS. HUSBAND: BUDDY KIRK ON AUGUST 21, 1999. SON-IN-LAW: JUNIOR C. COLBERT. GREAT GRANDSON: GREG COLBERT JR. BROTHERS: LEE, L. C. JOHNNY, CHARLES, AND JESSIE EVANS JR. SISTERS: LOIS MENNIFEE, SUDIE BELL CARTER, DEBORAH EVANS, AND CHARLENE LEWIS.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2004 AT 2:00 PM. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: WELLS STREET CEMETERY ~ STRINGTOWN, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. GERALD STEPHENS.

CASKETBEARERS: MIKE BROWN, GREG COLBERT, CRANDALL WASHINGTON, CURTIS WASHINGTON, LEWIS MCGEE, MIKE WASHINGTON.

HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: CARL BROWN, LAWRENCE NEAL, JIM WILKERSON, RODNEY BROWN.