BARBARA FUTISCHA

ADA-Services for Barbara Ann Futischa, 61, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Revs. Willie Fish and Jerry Parnacher will officiate. Burial will follow at Boiling Springs Cemetery. A Wake Service will be held at 7:00 p.m. Monday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Futischa died Thursday, May 15, 2008 at a local hospital. She was born July 29, 1946 at Centrahoma, Oklahoma to Jefferson and Rosa Tekubie Gibson. She attended grade school at Centrahoma and graduated from Sequoyah High School at Tahlequah. She attended Bacone College and East Central University studying billing coding. She moved to this area in 1966 from Coalgate.

She married Roy Eugene Futischa on January 12, 1991 at Ada, Oklahoma. Mrs. Futischa was a housekeeper at the Lazer Zone, a member of Ada First Indian Baptist Church, a Director for the Women Missionary Union for two years, a Sunday school teacher and a teacher for Vacation Bible School.

Survivors include her husband, Roy Futischa, of the home; three daughters, Brenda Rowland and husband Jody, Ada, Donna Ward and husband James, Ada, and Diana Lynn and husband Chris, McAlester; two sons, Brian Futischa and wife Ronda, Ada, and Jonathan Futischa and wife Mary Lowden, Ada; a sister, Emma Francis and husband Mike, Coalgate; and a brother, James Tekubie, Colorado Springs, CO; grandchildren, Shawn, Tracey, Darrell and Brianna Futischa, all of Ada, Isaiah Harjo, Ada, Alexis Futischa, Olney, Jasmine Walker and Anthony Stonecipher, Ada, Jessica Walker, Ada, Jody Rowland Jr., Ada, and Andrew, Ashley and Kaylee Lynn, McAlester; and great grandchildren, Kaiden, Naomi and Bradley Harjo, Ada, and Stetson Stonecipher, Ada.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Jefferson Gibson and Rosa Tekubie Gibson Miller, a brother, Wallace Tekubie, and her grandmother, Lula Miller.

Bearers will be Brian Francis, Michael Francis, Mark Francis, Lucus Dickers, R. D. Dickers, Randy Dickers, Lewis Futischa, Charles Casey Tekubie, and Jimmy Coody.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada