NAME: ROY LEON MEAD, AGE 75, LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: DECEMBER 25, 1922 AT HARMONY TO CHARLEY FRANKLIN AND EDNA (SHEFFIELD) MEAD. PASSED AWAY: SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1998 AT ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 75 YEARS 0 MONTHS AND 29 DAYS EDUCATION: GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL. MARRIED: IDA B. MILLS IN 1947 IN ATOKA COUNTY, OK. OCCUPATION: RETIRED WITH OVER 23 YEARS SERVICE AS A STATE GAME RANGER. ROY WAS A MEMBER OF THE HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH AND A MEMBER OF MASONIC LODGE, ATOKA LODGE #4. ROY SERVED IN THE 45TH INFANTRY IN WWII. HE LIVED IN CALIFORNIA FROM 1952 UNTIL 1961 AND THEN CAME BACK TO ATOKA WHERE HE LIVED THE REMAINDER OF THIS LIFE. ROY WAS A LOVER OF WILDLIFE AND SPENT MOST OF HIS LIFE WATCHING OVER GODS CREATURES. HE LOVED TO HUNT AND FISH. HE WAS ALSO WELL KNOWN FOR HIS BBQ AS HE COOKED FOR MANY SOCIAL EVENTS THROUGH THE YEARS IN THE COUNTY. SURVIVED BY WIFE: IDA B. MEAD OF THE HOME. DAUGHTER: HYDIE ROYLENE EUBANKS OF ATOKA, OK. GRANDDAUGHTERS: BRANDY DAWN AND CHEYENNE DESTINY EUBANKS OF ATOKA, OK. BROTHERS: AUTRY MEAD AND WIFE MARY OF LANE, OK. WILLIAM MEAD AND WIFE ALPHA MAE OF LANE, OK. SISTERS: RUBY BEATTIE OF WATSONVILLE, CA. MARY LOU CHRONISTER OF ATOKA, OK. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY BROTHERS: C. F. MEAD, ARTHUR DEAN MEAD, ELMER MEAD, ELMER LYLES, AND DUDLEY LYLES. SISTERS: CHARLENE MEAD BERNARD, OLETA MEAD MAYNARD, AND THELMA MEAD WOOTEN. PARENTS: CHARLIE AND EDNA MEAD.

DATE OF SERVICES: TUESDAY, JANUARY 27, 1998 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: HARMONY BAPTIST CHURCH, EAST OF ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: BUTLER CEMETERY ~ LANE, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. BRAD JONES. ASSISTING: REV. PAT SIX. CASKETBEARERS: (MASONIC BROTHERS) JARVIS WILLIAMS, DUKE ELLIS, J. D. BRADY, CURTIS LAMBERT, JAMES TURNER, DOLAN LATIMER, JOHN LATIMER, DOYLE EAGAN, ROBERT GILLESPIE. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: DOYLE SHEFFIELD, HOMER BLAKER, BROWN WYRICK, MILBERN MEAD, VERNON EASTRIDGE, JESSIE WAYNE PHILLIPS, PHILLIP MEAD, R. V. GOODSON.