NAME: STELLA MAE (KEYLON) BLACKBURN, AGE 81, LIFELONG ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: MARCH 1, 1917 IN ATOKA COUNTY, OK TO ROBERT CARTER AND EMMA PAMELIA (STEPHENS) KEYLON. PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, MAY 5, 1998 ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 81 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 4 DAYS. EDUCATION: ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT TUSHKA AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1935. MARRIED: FLOYD BLACKBURN ON JANUARY 18, 1941 IN ATOKA, OK. OCCUPATION: HOUSEWIFE & HOMEMAKER. CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF WARDS CHAPEL BAPTIST CHURCH MOST OF HER LIFE. SHE TAUGHT SUNDAY SCHOOL FOR MANY YEARS AND SERVED AS THE CHURCH TREASURER FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS. SURVIVED BY HUSBAND: FLOYD BLACKBURN OF THE HOME IN ATOKA, OK. CHILDREN: JOYCE CALDWELL AND HUSBAND G. M. OF LANCASTER, TX. KEN BLACKBURN AND WIFE SHIRLEY OF DURANT, OK. CURT BLACKBURN OF TULSA, OK. GRANDCHILDREN: SHELLY BLACKBURN, HEATHER CALDWELL, VALERIE BARRIENTOR, BRAD BLACKBURN, KENDI BLACKBURN, BRENT BLACKBURN. GREAT GRANDCHILD: ROBERT BARRIENTOR. SISTER: ETHEL KEYLON OF TISHOMINGO, OK. NEPHEW: LYNN RAY ESLICK OF LOUISIANA. NIECE: FRANCES HAMILTON OF VERNON, TX. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY SISTERS: VENITA ESLICK, MAGGIE JONES, AND LAVERN OWEN. BROTHERS: BILL KEYLON AND JIM KEYLON.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1998 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: GREEN MEADOWS CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. TOM HARGRAVE. ASSISTING: REV. BOB JOHNSON. CASKETBEARERS: TINKER RAY, PERRY RAY, PAT LOFTIS, RONNIE COCHRAN, CARL GOODSON, GENE TOMLINSON. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: KENNETH WILLIAMS, DON LOFTIS, ELMO THOMAS, RICHARD BETTS.