NAME: STEVEN PAUL WHITTINGTON, AGE 41, A LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: AUGUST 22, 1962 AT CLARKSDALE, MISSISSIPPI TO KINION AND MARILYN (CASE) WHITTINGTON.

PASSED AWAY: MONDAY, JUNE 14, 2004 AT HIS RESIDENCE NEAR TUSHKA, OK. AGE: 41 YEARS 9 MONTHS AND 22 DAYS.

EDUCATION: ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL IN ORLANDO, FLORIDA AND GRADUATED FROM ATOKA HIGH SCHOOL WITH THE CLASS OF 78. STEVE WAS ATOKA HIGH FOOTBALL CAPTAIN HIS SENIOR YEAR AND WAS VOTED THE MOST LIKELY TO SUCCEED. HE ATTENDED EAST CENTRAL STATE UNIVERSITY AND OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY.

OCCUPATION: STEVE WAS A RANCHER AND HORSEMAN AND OPERATED MIDCONTINENTAL CHEMICAL COMPANY UNTIL HE WAS FORCED TO RETIRE DUE TO DISABLING INJURIES HE RECEIVED IN A 1998 AUTO ACCIDENT.

CHURCH AFFILIATION: MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN ATOKA.

HE WAS A FORMER MEMBER OF THE ATOKA JAYCEES AND HE WAS AN OUTDOORSMAN.

SURVIVED BY

SON: TYLER RYAN WHITTINGTON OF SAVANNAH, OK.

MOTHER: MARILYN CASE WHITTINGTON OF THE HOME NEAR TUSHKA, OK.

BROTHERS: MARK EDWARD WHITTINGTON AND WIFE SUSAN OF OKLAHOMA CITY. KINION EDWARD WHITTINGTON AND WIFE ROBIN OF DURANT, OK. JAMES MICHAEL WHITTINGTON OF OKLAHOMA CITY.

NEPHEWS: KINION BLAKE AND NICHOLAS ANDREW WHITTINGTON OF DURANT, OK.

PRECEDED IN DEATH BY

FATHER: KINION WHITTINGTON ON NOVEMBER 3, 1998. PATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: KINION AND LEACY (ON JANUARY 18, 2000) WHITTINGTON. MATERNAL GRANDPARENTS: JEFF AND LIZZIE CASE.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 16, 2004 AT 11:00 AM. PLACE OF SERVICES: FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH ~ ATOKA, OK.

INTERMENT: HIGH HILL CEMETERY ~ TUSHKA, OK.

OFFICIATING: REV. JOE CHAPIN. EULOGY: SUE TATE.

CASKETBEARERS: PETE TATE, TOM HAMILTON, CHARLIE BONNER, JOHN WILLIAMS, LEO FUNDARO, MIKE LEE.