NAME: ROBERT MILTON BOB CHRISTIE, AGE 82, A LONGTIME ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: SEPTEMBER 26, 1918 AT CLARKSBURG, WV TO EVERETT AND RHEA (BURTON) CHRISTIE. PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2001 AT OAK RIDGE MANOR NURSING HOME IN DURANT, OK. AGE: 82 YEARS 11 MONTHS AND 29 DAYS. EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM NORMAN HIGH SCHOOL AND ATTENDED OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY MAJORING IN PETROLEUM AND MECHANICAL ENGINEERING. MARRIED: VONDA RUTH JUDY STALEY ON APRIL 7, 1939 AT HENDERSON, KY. OCCUPATION: BOB WORKED MANY YEARS AS AN OIL FIELD DRILLER PRIOR TO WORLD WAR II. HE CAME TO ATOKA IN 1951. HE OPENED ATOKA PLUMBING COMPANY, LATER ESTABLISHED BIG BEAR CONSTRUCTION COMPANY AND IN 1972 HE JOINED MECHANICAL SERVICES, RETIRING IN 1992. CHURCH AFFILIATION: BOB WAS A LONGTIME AND ACTIVE MEMBER OF THE HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH. HE SERVED ON NUMEROUS CHURCH BOARDS AND COMMITTEES. BOB PROUDLY SERVED ON THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL BOARD AND SERVED ON THE BOARD OF THE FORMER ATOKA CITY BANK. BOB WAS IN THE U.S. ARMY AND SERVED IN WORLD WAR II. HE WAS PRESENT AT THE LIBERATION OF THE BUCHENWALD GERMAN PRISON CAMP. BOB'S CLAIM TO FAME WAS HIS OIL FIELD DRILLING IN ENGLAND, WHICH WAS A SECRET MISSION PROVIDING OIL TO THE FRONT LINES OF THE WAR EFFORT. THE GERMANS WERE DESTROYING ALL OIL FIELDS. SURVIVED BY WIFE: JUDY CHRISTIE OF THEIR HOME IN ATOKA, OK. DAUGHTER: KAREN BURDEN OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDSONS: JOHN BURDEN AND WIFE CANDY OF COLLINSVILLE, OK. CHAD BURDEN OF BROKEN ARROW, OK. WADE BURDEN OF LUBBOCK, TX. TORREY MILTON CHRISTIE OF LAS VEGAS, NV. GRANDDAUGHTER: SHANNON CHRISTIE OF LAS VEGAS, NV. GREAT GRANDCHILDREN: RACEY, RYLIE, AND RIDGE BURDEN OF COLLINSVILLE, OK. OLIVIA CHRISTIE OF LAS VEGAS, NV. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: EVERETT AND RHEA CHRISTIE. SON: ALAN MILTON CHRISTIE.

DATE OF SERVICES: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 2001 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH, EAST OF ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. JASON YARBROUGH. CASKETBEARERS: PAUL MULLINS, CHARLES MCKEE, DAVID DURBIN, JOE LAMBERT, BRUCE USHER, STEVE SWINDALL. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: FLOYD GENE HOWARD, KEN STONE, DEBBIE HALL, RICK MOORE, IRA RILEY, CALVIN CLEVELAND, JAN MCDONALD, JAMES THOMPSON, JIM CATHEY, KEITH HILL.