Celebrating Lives

DON CLARK ADA-Services for Donald Ray "Don" Clark, 69, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Farron Oliver will officiate. Burial will follow at Maxwell Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home. Mr. Clark died Sunday, August 17, 2008 at his…

MILES KIMMEL, JR. KINGSTON-Services for Miles Kimmel, Jr., 80, Kingston, formerly of Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Dalan Larason and Ed Bristol will officiate. Burial will follow at Lightning Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home. Mr. Kimmel died…

CAROLYN TOWNSEND ADA-Services for Carolyn Jean "Brockett" Townsend, 66, Ada, are 2:00 P.M. Monday at First United Methodist Church, Rev. Claud Baltimore officiating. Mrs. Townsend died on Thursday, August 14, 2008, at a local hospital. She was born February 16, 1942, in Decatur, Illinois, to Norris Hill Brockett and Justine Alvina Karich Brockett. She graduated…

ROSALIE WILLIAMSON FRANCIS-Graveside services for Rosalie Williamson, 90, Francis, were 10:00 a.m. Saturday at Denny Cemetery, Truman Scroggins officiating. Mrs. Williamson died on Thursday, August 14, 2008, at a local hospital. She was born October 29, 1917, at Maud, Oklahoma, to William and Mary Harp D'Veney. She attended Oakman and Byng schools. She was a…

NAY DEAN VOYLES ADA-Services for Nay Dean Voyles, 81, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Saturday at First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Revs. Robert Ware, Robert Brown and Ken Butler officiating. Burial follows at Lightning Ridge Cemetery. Mrs. Voyles died on Thursday, August 14, 2008, at a local nursing home. She was born October 16, 1926, at Roff…

BEATRICE HERION RIVERDALE, GEORGIA-Graveside services for Beatrice Herion, 92, Riverdale, Georgia, formerly of the Ada area, are 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, August 19, 2008, at Lightning Ridge Cemetery. Mrs. Herion died on Thursday, August 14, 2008, in Riverdale, Georgia. She was born August 17, 1915, at Fitzhugh to the late Oscar and Beulah McCrackin Templeton. She…

SUE PARKER ADA-Graveside services for Mary Sue Elizabeth Parker, 77, Ada, were held at an earlier date at Memorial Park Cemetery, Rev. Carol Reich officiated. Mrs. Parker died on Tuesday, August 12, 2008 in Ada. She was born August 21, 1930, at Ada, Oklahoma to Richard D. and Ada Aldridge Runyans. She attended school at…

LEE NICKELL ADA-Memorial services for Lee Nickell, 49, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Chapel, Bobby Johns officiating. Burial will follow at New Bethel Cemetery. Mr. Nickell died on Sunday, August 10, 2008, at his home. He was born October 6, 1958, at Ada to Rennie Mancil Nickell and Edna Othelia Vermillion Nickell.…

WANDA HILBURN ADA-Services for Wanda Fay Hilburn, 76, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Dr. Bob Payne and Rev. Carl Hayes will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 – 8:00 p.m. Tuesday evening at Criswell Funeral Home. They will also receive friends…

LEWIS BUTLER ADA-Graveside services for Lewis Edward Butler, 72, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Denison Cemetery, in Idabel, Rev. Donald Ray Jones officiating. Choctaw Honor Guard will perform military honors at the cemetery. Mr. Butler died on Saturday, August 9, 2008, in an Oklahoma City nursing home. He was born March 9, 1936,…