OBITUARY NAME: VERNA LYNN (REEVES) COOKSEY AN ATOKA AREA RESIDENT FOR 31 YEARS BORN: MAY 13, 1956 TO VERNON LOYD REEVES AND LORRAINE ADELLA (STEVENSON) REEVES IN SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA PASSED AWAY: FRIDAY NOV. 30, 2007 AT HER RESIDENCE ON WINDY LANE IN ATOKA, OK AGE: 51 YEARS 6 MONTHS AND 17 DAYS OCCUPATION: VERNA VOLUNTEERED IN MANY CHURCH AND COMMUNITY AFFAIRS THROUGH THE YEARS AND LOVED TO READ AND STUDY THE BIBLE . SHE ALSO LIKED TO DO CROSSWORD PUZZLES AND TO FISH EDUCATION: SHE ATTENDED SCHOOLS AT MEEKER, OK. WHERE SHE GRADUATED IN 1974. MARRIED TO: VERNA MARRIED CARROLL COOKSEY ON MARCH 26, 1976 IN EULESS, TX. MEMBER OF LONGTIME MEMBER OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN ON FORREST HILL ROAD IN ATOKA COUNTY. SURVIVORS INCLUDE: : HUSBAND: CARROLL COOKSEY OF THE HOME CHILDREN: LEANN COOKSEY OF ATOKA CARROLL GENE COOKSEY, JR. AND WIFE ALESHA OF STRATFORD, OK ADAM LEE COOKSEY AND WIFE SHARONDA OF ATOKA GRANDCHILD: ELIZABETH JEWEL COOKSEY OF ATOKA FATHER: VERNON REEVES OF MEEKER, OK SISTER DIANNA WRIGHT AND HUSBAND STEVE OF CHOCTAW, OK MARCIA BOND AND HUSBAND GORDON OF GUTHRIE,OK. BROTHERS: MIKE REEVES AND WIFE DEBORAH OF MEEKER, OK JEFF REEVES AND WIFE JUDY OF GUTHRIE, OK SCOTT REEVES AND WIFE KIM OF MEEKER, OK FATHER-in- LAW: HAROLD COOKSEY OF ATOKA ALONG WITH MANY NIECES & NEPHEWS, COUSINS AND OTHER RELATIVES AND MANY VERY DEAR AND LOVED FRIENDS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY: MOTHER: LORRAINE REEVES MOTHER-IN-LAW: LUCILLE COOKSEY ***************************************************************************************************** DATE OF SERVICES: SUNDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2007 PLACE OF SERVICES: GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND CHURCH OF THE FIRST BORN ON FORREST HILL ROAD. OFFICIATING: BRO. DOYLE FINCHER ASSISTED BY: BRO. JAMES POWELL PLACE OF INTERMENT: BETHANY CEMETERY CASKETBEARERS: BRENT ABLES. MATTHEW ABLES. DENNIS POWELL, JERRY HENDERSON. DANNY ADAMS, LEON HUSCHKE HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: MIKE REEVES, JEFF REEVES, SCOTT REEVES, J.R. COOKSEY, CHARLES COOKSEY FAMILY NIGHT WILL BE 6PM TO 8 PM SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 2007 AT BROWN'S CHAPEL SERVICES UNDER THE DIRECTION OF BROWN'S FUNERAL SERVICE, ATOKA