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Memorial services for Janie Sue Welch, age 71, a Coalgate, OK resident, formerly a lifelong Atoka, OK resident, will be held Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 2:00 p.m. at Brown’s Funeral Chapel in Atoka, OK with Pastor Marylin West Pratt officiating. Brown’s Funeral Service of Atoka is in charge of arrangements.
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Paula Jeannine (Leister) Hall died on October 1, 2024. She passed peacefully at her home in Redondo Beach, CA, at the age of 89 surrounded by family. Born on October 7, 1934 to Dovie (Wilson) Leister and Paul Byron Leister in Coalgate, OK, Paula graduated Coalgate High School in 1952. She retired from a 25-year career as a proposal operations editor for TRW (now Northrop Grumman). During her life she enjoyed travel, especially for family and reunions, created award winning quilts, achieved Life Master status with the ACBL, and held leadership and supporting roles with the Clan MacMillan Pacific Branch and the 70th Infantry Division Association. She dearly loved her family, weekly bridge and mahjongg friends, and always enjoyed a gathering especially when she was hosting. The definition of grace, she will be profoundly missed.
Read moreJune (Riley) Scott, 94, long time resident of Stonewall, are 2:00 p.m Thursday October 10 2024 at the Stonewall First Baptist Church with Rev. JP Williams officiating, assisted by Rev. Duane Riley. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.
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Bette Ann Scates passed away peacefully at her home in Tishomingo, Oklahoma, on September 8, 2024, surrounded by her loving family. She was born on July 18, 1953, in Corcoran, California, to Robert Hardy Wyatt and Nannie Wayne (Taylor) Wyatt.
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Funeral services for Carolyn “Sue” Yarbrough a Coalgate OK resident were held Tuesday, October 1, 2024 at 2:00 pm at Brown’s Funeral Chapel, Coalgate, Oklahoma with Richard Magby. Interment was in Lehigh Cemetery in Lehigh, OK with Brown’s Funeral Service of Coalgate in charge of arrangements.
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Margaret Ann (Blevins) Troyer, a Chandler resident, was born on September 1, 1960, to Melvin Ray and Joyce Nadine (Dority) Blevins, at Coalgate, Oklahoma. She passed away on September 25, 2024, at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, at the age of 64 years and 24 days.
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Funeral services for Elmer Gene Griffith, a Tushka, OK resident, and lifelong Atoka County resident were held Sunday, September 22, 2024 at Brown’s Funeral Chapel in Atoka with Bro. David Kautt officiating. Burial was in Stringtown Cemetery with Brown’s Funeral Service of Atoka in charge of arrangements.
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The family of Joseph Eugene McClure, a longtime Tupelo resident, will have a Celebration of Life on Saturday, September 28. 2024 at 1:00 p.m. at the Choctaw Community Center in Coalgate. Lunch will follow.
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