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Miama Williams
Services for Miama Williams will be 1 p.m. Monday at Mount Zion Baptist Church. Interment will follow at Hickory Cemetery.
Born Sept. 1, 1910, at Springer to Paul and Hattie Patton, was the youngest of six children. She was baptized at a young age under the leadership of Rev. Wiley and in 1941 she united with the Mount Zion Baptist Church. She attended Grant School at Springer. Mrs. Williams was a resident of Carter County all of her life. She worked for Mr. and Mrs. R.G. Colvert until her retirement.
She was preceded in death by her husband. She was also preceded in death by a son, Wesley Williams, in 1932; one sister, Riva Bennett; and three brothers, Zack, Ben and Eugene Patton.
On Monday, July 20, 1999, she departed this mortal life, and her heavenly father called his faithful servant home. She leaves to forever cherish her memory two daughters, Mary Helen Anderson, Chicago, Rosie Lee Williams, Ardmore; three sons, Herbert Lee Williams, Carson, Calif., Billy Gene Williams and Ralph Reginald Williams, both Ardmore; one sister, Dora Martin, Gene Autry; 14 grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren; and one very special daughter-in-law, Pamela Williams, Carson; and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends.
Services are under the direction of Ragsdale-Grant and Sons Mortuary.
Survivors include three sons, Phillip and Bill, both Ardmore, and Robert, Oklahoma City.

Odis H. Love
Services for Odis H. Love, 74, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Billy Smith officiating. Interment will follow at Greenhill Cemetery, Davis.
Born Dec. 5, 1925, at Ardmore to Robert and Ethel Love, he died July 21, 1999, at Atoka. He married Annie Katherine Henson on May 12, 1957, at Gainesville, Texas. She preceded him in death Jan. 18, 1975. He was also preceded in death by a daughter, Dianna Love; and a grandson.
An Ardmore resident most of his life, Love had spent the past month living at Antlers. He had worked for BF Goodrich and Bob Cross Fencing Company.
Survivors include sons, Odis R. Love, Lone Grove, Melvin Love, Ada, Arnold W. Love, Purcell, Bobby D. Love and Jimmy Love, both Ardmore, and Enos Camerine Pierce, Sherman, Texas; daughters, Linda L. Sheldon, Ardmore, Donna S. Harvey, Stratford, Kathy A. Douglas, Park City, Kan., and Shelly L. Drummond, Tulsa; brothers, James, Thackerville, Earl and Mose, both Ardmore; 14 grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
Bearers are Mike Royal, Arnold Austin and Bradley Love.

Wilma Carnahan
VERNON, Texas -- Services for Wilma Carnahan, 70, will be 11 a.m. Monday at Sullivan Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Randy Parks officiating. Graveside services will follow at 3 p.m. at Rubottom Cemetery.
Born April 19, 1929, at Wilson to Cecil and Florence Rambo Cox, she died July 21, 1999, at her home following a brief illness. She married Ewell M. Carnahan on March 1, 1947, at Gainesville, Texas. He preceded her in death on March 30, 1989. She was also preceded in death by daughter, Brenda Carnahan, in 1973.
Mrs. Carnahan moved to Vernon from Wilson in 1959. She was a homemaker and a member of the Travelers Square Dance Club. Mrs. Carnahan was a member of the Faith Sunday School Class at First Baptist Church.
Survivors include two daughters, Ann Burkhart, Vernon, and Debbie Pool, Wichita Falls, Texas; one son, Buell Carnahan, Fort Worth, Texas; eight grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Bearers are Jesse Appleby, Mickey Ferrell, Keith Bradford, Gene Morton, Luel Duffie and Larry Rackley. Honorary bearers are members of the Travelers Square Dance Club.
Visitation is 7-8 tonight at the funeral home.

Lou Williams
MARIETTA -- Graveside rites for Lou Williams, 86, Mount Enterprise, Texas, will be 2 p.m. Monday at Lakeview Cemetery with the Rev. Steve Gardner officiating.
Born Feb. 25, 1913, at Marietta to William and Rose Orr, she died July 23, 1999, at her home. She was preceded in death by her first husband, Henry Hale; four brothers; and four sisters.
Mrs. Williams was a homemaker. She married Everett Williams in 1981 at Rockport, Texas. She had lived at Mount Enterprise for the past 17 years. Mrs. Williams was a Protestant.
Survivors include her husband, of the home; two daughters, Rosemary Lianza, Humble, Texas, and Joyce Markow, Round Rock, Texas; eight grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.
Services are under the direction of Kennedy Funeral Home.

Esther Ruth Nolan
PAULS VALLEY -- Services for Esther Ruth Nolan, 93, will be 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Stufflebean Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Marion Oden officiating. Interment will follow at Oaklawn Cemetery, Wynnewood.
Born Oct. 31, 1905, in Wynnewood to M.W. and Nancy Lovell Mullins, she died July 23, 1999, at the Pauls Valley hospital. She was a member of Liberty Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her husband, Patrick "Pat" Nolan; eight sisters; and two brothers.
Survivors include a sister, Ida Crawford, Ardmore.

Thornton Kell, MD
Dr. Thornton Kell, pioneer surgeon and longtime resident of Ardmore, died on Thursday, July 15, 1999, in Colorado Springs while on holiday with his son Philip and his family.
A memorial service will be held at St. Philip's Episcopal Church on Monday, Aug. 16, at 2 p.m. Dr. Kell will be interred in Bluefield, W. Va., next to his wife, Elizabeth.
Dr. Kell was born in Welch, W. Va., and grew up in Welch and Bluefield. He received his BA degree from Marshall College and his BS from West Virginia University. He received his MD from the University of Georgia Medical School and took further postgraduate training in Charleston, W.Va., Baltimore, and at Washington University in St. Louis.
Dr. Kell was the first qualified and board certified surgeon in the Ardmore area and was the first chief of staff of Southern Oklahoma Memorial Hospital. He was made a fellow of the American College of Surgeons.
He was an enthusiastic golfer and longtime member of Dornick Hills Golf and Country Club. He was a member of the Rotary Club and was senior warden of St. Philip's Episcopal Church during a time of great expansion when the parish hall was built. When he worked in Virginia he was very involved with the Boy Scouts of America and was awarded the Sliver Beaver Award.
He was the husband of the late Elizabeth Henritze Kell; and the father of two sons, Thornton Jr., of Needham, Mass., and Philip Henritze Kell of Muskegon, Mich.
He is survived by his sons; his sisters, Margaret Kell Bolen of Athens, W. Va., and Nellie Leckie Strohl of Fresno, Calif.; his brother, Dr. Anthony Kell of Richmond, Va.; and his grandchildren, Rachel A. Kell of Cambridge, Ma., and Joshua and Elizabeth Kell of Muskegon.

Philip E. 'Gene' Riesen
Graveside rites for Philip Eugene ³Gene² Riesen, 79, will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday at Rose Hill Cemetery with Denise Balmer officiating.
Riesen died July 23, 1999, in Ardmore, where he was born Dec. 16, 1919, to Ernest P. and Mary G. Riesen.
A graduate of Ardmore High School and the University of Oklahoma, he had been a television advertising sales executive prior to retiring and returning to Ardmore from Tulsa. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church. He married Idabelle Holder Drake Jan. 23, 1942, at Winfield, Kan. He was preceded in death by his wife Dec. 3, 1997; and his parents.
Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Philip Riesen Jr. and Glenda; a daughter and son-in-law, Lori and Jacques Spree; five grandsons; and a great-granddaughter.
Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home will direct services.

Jamie McKee
SULPHUR -- Services for Jamie McKee, 19, Hennepin, will be at 1 p.m. Tuesday at Faith Center Church in Sulphur with Jerry Lemley officiating. Interment will follow at Resthaven Cemetery in Oklahoma City.
McKee died July 24, 1999, in Davis. He was born Nov. 8, 1979, in Oklahoma City.
He is survived by his parents, Charles I. and Cindy Warren McKee; sister, Dana Beasley, Davis; five brothers, Charles Swenson, Omaha, Neb., Steven McKee, Mesa, Ariz., Larry McKee, Anaheim, Calif., Don McKee, Davis; and Brian McKee, Oklahoma City; grandmother, Clyda Dawson, Hobart; and two stepbrothers, Casper and Michael Warren, Hennepin.
Fox Funeral Home, Davis, will direct services.

Everett F. Capshaw
Everett F. Capshaw, founder and longtime owner of Texhoma Office Supply, died Saturday, July 24, 1999, in Forrest General Hospital in Hattiesburg, Miss. He was 83 years old.
Funeral services were at 2 p.m. today, July 27, 1999, at Northwest Baptist Church. Burial was at Hillcrest Memorial Park. Dr. Vaughan CroweTipton and Dr. Bill Johnson conducted the services.
Mr. Capshaw was born Aug. 13, 1915, in Billings, Mont. He was the son of the late R.B. and Pearl Capshaw.
Before moving to Ardmore, he was graduated from the University of Oklahoma Law School in the late 1930s. During World War II, Mr. Capshaw served in the U.S. Navy as a naval courier. He was then promoted as a commanding officer of a decrypting section and became a JAG Commanding Officer for the Seventh Fleet.
After World War II, he served in the U.S. Naval Reserve, rising to the rank of Lt. Commander during his 20-year stint.
After the war, he started a law practice in Oklahoma City and moved to Ardmore in 1947 where he started Texhoma Office Supply Co.
In 1948, he married Iva Lou Harris in Oklahoma City. She preceded him in death in 1993.
In 1994, Mr. Capshaw married Mae Ora Johnson of Hattiesburg, Miss. The couple was living in Ardmore at the time of his death.
Mr. Capshaw was a longtime member and deacon at Northwest Baptist Church. He was also a member of Ardmore Kiwanis Club and the bar association.
He is survived by his wife, Mae Ora; three sons and their wives, Phillip and Merla Capshaw and Bill and Lori Capshaw, all of Ardmore, and Robert and Leslie Capshaw of Edmond; and 14 grandchildren.
Memorials may be made to Northwest Baptist Church organ fund, 1609 Robinson, Ardmore, OK 73401.
Griffin-Kennedy-Watts Funeral Home directed services.

William H. Baker
BLACKWELL -- Graveside services for William Henry Baker, 84, will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at Blackwell Cemetery with the Rev. Jackie Crafton officiating.
Baker was born Jan. 30, 1915, at Mannsville, to William A. and Ada B. Easley Baker. He died July 25, 1999, in Sulphur.
Reared in Mannsville and the Sulphur area, he lived in Centerton, Ark., and worked for the Tyson Chicken Co. until he retired. He lived in Blackwell several years and moved to Sulphur in 1997. He married Lillian Davidson in 1951. She died in 1969. He and Frances Pendergast were married in 1974. She died in 1997. He was also preceded by two brothers, Calvin and Thurman; and a sister, LouElla Baker. He was a member of Blackwell Assembly of God Church.
Survivors include a brother, Claude, Sulphur; five stepdaughters, Edna Summers, Fort Worth, Texas, Peggy Parsons, Muskogee, Nancy Johns, Rose McElroy and Francis Moore, Blackwell; two stepsons, Ted Laughlin, Seymour, Mo., and Ralph Laughlin, Alva, Mo.
Clagg Funeral Home will direct services.

F.A. 'Dale' Gardom
SULPHUR -- Services for F.A. ³Dale² Gardom, 89, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at St. Francis Xavier Catholic Church with Father Timothy Fuller officiating. Interment and graveside rites will be at 2 p.m. at St. Teresa's Catholic Cemetery in Harrah.
Gardom was born Nov. 15, 1909, at Alma, N.M., to Dale M. and Bertie Bray Gardom. He died July 25, 1999, in Sulphur.
He moved from Alma to Oklahoma in 1920 and lived in Oklahoma City before moving to Sulphur in 1963. He was a Catholic and retired employee of Mustang Fuel Corp. He and Julia K. Miller were married July 30, 1934, at Harrah.
Survivors include his wife, of the home; a son, Kenneth, Azle, Texas; four brothers, James, Springerville, Ariz., Charles, Holbrook, Ariz., Paul, Las Cruces, N.M., and Wayne, Glenwood, N.M.; and two sisters, Zula Jolly and Hester Brunt, El Paso, Texas.
Clagg Funeral Home will direct services.

Juanita Kemena
Services for Juanita Kemena, 85, Edmond, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Hillcrest Mausoleum Chapel with the Rev. John Wackler officiating. Entombment will follow at Hillcrest Mausoleum.
Mrs. Kemena was born Aug. 26, 1913, at Rudd, Iowa. She died July 26, 1999, in an Edmond health care facility.
She lived in Bristow, Ada and Ringling before moving to Healdton in 1959. She was employed several years for Lively Electric Co. She was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in Ardmore and B&PW in Healdton. She and Arthur F. Kemena were married Jan. 21, 1942, at Ada. He preceded her in death Dec. 2, 1971.
She is survived by a daughter, Kathy Williams, Edmond; her mother, Suzie Ward, Riverbank, Calif.; brother, Gerald Kingsbury, Ojai, Calif.; sister, Zola Mae Bill, Stratford; and grandson, Justin Williams, Norman.
Reser Funeral Home, Healdton, will direct services.

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