BEATRICE PATTON

ADA-Services for Beatrice R. Patton, 98, Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Saturday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Bobby Scott will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Patton died Wednesday, July 9, 2008 at a Sulphur nursing home. She was born March 2, 1910 at Caddo, Oklahoma to Charles P. and Effie Dee Seawright Cates. She attended rural schools in Oklahoma and moved to Ada about 1934.

She married A. L. Patton on February 10, 1934 in Frederick, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on February 1, 1965. Mrs. Patton was a sales clerk for Scott's Department Store, Gluckman's Department Store and also Wall's Discount for many years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church, and was a master gardener.

Survivors include a daughter, Pat Ashmore and husband Jerry, Weatherford, Texas; two sons, A. L. Patton, Jr. and wife Sue, Mill Creek, and Charles G. Patton, Oklahoma City; one sister, Janie Jamar and husband Albert, Ada; and five grandchildren, Kenny Scott, Bobby G. Scott, Lewis Wade Scott, Hardy Patton, and Kristopher Patton; great grandchildren, Misty Smith, Brent Scott, Emma Patton, Jake Patton, Ryan Patton, Matthew Patton, Leitasha Scott, and Brad Scott; and two great great grandchildren, Charity Smith and Ashlyn Smith.

She was preceded in death by two brothers, Lucian Cates and Pat Cates, and her step-mother who reared her, Lucy B. Shelton Cates.

Bearers will be her grandsons, Hardy Patton, Kristopher Patton, Lewis Wade Scott and Kenny Scott, her son-in-law, Jerry Ashmore, and great grandson, Brent Scott.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada