BILLIE CAROL
ADA-Graveside services for Billie Carol Strain, 62, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Monday, October 1, 2007, at the Rosedale Cemetery. Rev. George Carson will officiate.
Billie Carol died Friday, September 28, 2007 at a local hospital. She was born August 26, 1945 at Ada, Oklahoma to Jim and Billie Rose Hayes Goodwin. She attended Ada schools and graduated from Ada High School. She graduated from the Valley View Regional Hospital Nursing School as a Licensed Practical Nurse. She was employed at Valley View Regional Hospital for many years. She moved to Florida for five years and later to Salem, Oregon for twenty years, before returning to Ada. Billie Carol attended Grace Christian Fellowship Church in Ada.
Survivors include her closest companion, Clifton Branscum, of the home; her step-father, George Parker, Ada; her father and step-mother, Jim Goodwin and wife Betty, Ada; a brother, Gary Don Parker, Houston, Texas; and several adopted brothers and sisters; an aunt, Virginia Bowers, Ada; and a niece, Heather Darlene Dupré, Houston, Texas.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Billie Parker, two aunts, Betty Goodwin and Tawana Tudor, and an uncle, Amos "Buster" Hayes.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada