NAME: UEAL HUSTON MCKINZIE, AGE 66, A LONGTIME ATOKA COUNTY RESIDENT.

BORN: OCTOBER 10, 1933 AT TUSHKA, OKLAHOMA TO WINFRED E. AND MARGARETTE JANE (ROWTON) MCKINZIE. PASSED AWAY: TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1999 AT THE ATOKA MEMORIAL HOSPITAL. AGE: 66 YEARS 2 MONTHS AND 11 DAYS. EDUCATION: STARTED SCHOOL IN IMPERIAL AND EL CENTRO, CALIFORNIA AND GRADUATED FROM TUSHKA HIGH SCHOOL IN 1953. HE ATTENDED OSU TECH IN OKMULGEE AS A DIESEL MECHANIC. MARRIED: BETTY CAROL STRICKLIN ON MARCH 22, 1957 IN ATOKA, OK. OCCUPATION: WORKED FOR OREN COCHRAN FROM 1960 IN WHOLESALE OIL AND GAS AND LATER WAS A TRUCK DRIVER FOR COCHRAN PROPANE AND MOST RECENTLY FOR ATOKA COUNTY PROPANE. CHURCH AFFILIATION: UEAL WAS A MEMBER OF THE PENTECOSTAL HOLINESS CHURCH ON WEST 6TH STREET IN ATOKA AND WAS A MEMBER OF THE OKLAHOMA L. P. GAS ASSOCIATION. SURVIVED BY WIFE: BETTY MCKINZIE OF THE HOME IN ATOKA, OK. DAUGHTER: DEBRA MCKINIZE OF ATOKA, OK. SISTERS: UELALA COCHRAN AND HUSBAND OREN OF ATOKA, OK. EUNICE MORRIS AND HUSBAND VERNON OF FT. WORTH, TX. KATHY MORGAN AND HUSBAND PAUL OF WAPANUCKA, OK. FATHER-IN-LAW: C. W. STRICKLIN OF ATOKA, OK. NIECES: NANCY AND CONNIE. NEPHEWS: DON, DALE, STAN, AND DARYL. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY PARENTS: WINFRED AND MARGARETTE (ON FEBRUARY 2, 1997) MCKINZIE. MOTHER-IN-LAW: LOTTIE STRICKLIN.

DATE OF SERVICES: THURSDAY, DECEMBER 23, 1999 AT 2:00 P.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK. INTERMENT: TUSHKA CEMETERY ~ TUSHKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. RICHARD MAGBY. ASSISTING: REV. TROY GRAVES. CASKETBEARERS: DON WALLACE, CHRIS ROWTON, JOHNNY ROWTON, DANNY MILLER, MILFORD POWELL, GLENN ROBBINS. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: BEN BONHAM, LEON CRITES, TOMMY WOOLF, JIM MILLER, JERRY READ, BOB UBER, DUANE HUMPHREY, RON THOMAS.