Celebrating Lives

CAROLYN FOX ADA-Services for Carolyn Fox, 47, of Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home Chapel. Ms. Fox died Sunday, December 25, 2011 at her home. She was born September 4, 1964 in Ada to Leonard and Dorothy Lee Underwood Fox. She attended Latta schools and was a homemaker. Survivors include her companion,…

ANNA LUPINSKI ADA-Services for Anna Vincenza Lupinski, 88, of Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Friday at St. Joseph Catholic Church, Father Rusty Hewes will officiate. Burial will follow at Swan Hill Cemetery. A Prayer Vigil will be held at 7:00 p.m. Thursday at Criswell Funeral Home. Mrs. Lupinski died Sunday, December 25, 2011 at a local…

JERRY HOWARD ADA-Graveside services Cecil Jerry Howard, 75, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Rosedale Cemetery. Jim Smith and Ben Condon will officiate. Mr. Howard died Sunday, December 25, 2011 at an Oklahoma City hospital. He was born November 21, 1936 in Millcreek, Oklahoma to Cecil Franklin and Geneva May Burk Howard. He came with…

JUSTIN LANCASTER ADA-Graveside services for Justin Ray"Crack" Lancaster, 30, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Highland Cemetery in Stonewall. The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Tuesday at Criswell Funeral Home. Justin "Crack" Lancaster died Friday, December 23, 2011 at a local hospital. He was born October 2, 1981 in Ada,…

DEENE SHERBERT HEDRICK ADA-Services for Deene Sherbert Hedrick, 89, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Friday at the Central Church of Christ, Bill Nelson will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Criswell Funeral Home. Mrs. Hedrick died Tuesday, December 20, 2011 at a…

MATTIE RUTH WHITLOCK ELIZABETHTOWN, KY-Services for Mattie Ruth Whitlock, 88, of Elizabethtown, KY, formerly of Ada are 10:30 a.m. Thursday, December 29th at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Harold Ware will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.…

SCOTT WALKER ALLEN-Graveside services for Scott William Walker, 78, Allen, formerly of Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Thursday at Five-Mile Cemetery. Rev. Earl Hood will officiate. Mr. Walker died Monday, December 19, 2011 at an Allen nursing home. He was born January 6, 1933 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Marion Richmond and Edra Mae Barker Walker.…

Melba Thomas King, of Ada, died Monday, December 19th, just five days short of her 103rd birthday. She was born Melba Brown McKoy, on December 24th, 1908, in Stonewall. She and her sister, Zebalene (Ramsey), were the children of Zebulon Keahey McKoy and Addie Jessie Brown McKoy. The elder McKoys had moved to Indian Territory…

CAROL TOMLIN ADA-Carol Ann Tomlin, 74, Ada, died Sunday, December 18, 2011 at a local nursing home. She was born on December 10, 1937 in Ada, Oklahoma to Wayne and Juanita Townsend Tomlin. Ms. Tomlin graduated from the Universities of Oklahoma and Oregon. She taught in the English Department at East Central University for 10…

RED KIFER ASHER-Services for Edmond Lee "Red" Kifer, 77, Asher, are 1 p.m. Tuesday at Criswell Funeral Home chapel, Bill Burns will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery. Mr. Kifer died Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, at an Ada hospital. He was born Feb. 11, 1934, to Roy and Dovie Owens Kifer near Stonewall. He…