BILL HOOSER

ADA-Services for Billy Jerl Hooser, 75, Ada, are 10:30 A.M. Tuesday, July 5, 2011, at Community Free Will Baptist Church, Pickett, Rev. John Henry Lippard officiating. Burial follows at Center Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. Sunday evening and 6:00 – 8:00 P.M. Monday evening.

Mr. Hooser died on Thursday, June 30, 2011, at his home. He was born November 27, 1935, in the Wilson community west of Ada to Toss A. and Grace Reynolds Hooser. He attended school at Wilson and graduated from Latta High School and attended East Central State College. His last year at Latta High School he was honored to receive "The Junior Master Farmers Degree" by the Oklahoma FFA Association, along with 244 other top FFA members of Oklahoma. This was the highest award that could be given on a state level. After serving 2 years in the U. S. Army in Tacoma, Washington, he worked for the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific Railroad, first as a clerk, then as a traveling auditor at Des Moines, Iowa, and Dallas, Texas, then as a terminal agent at Fort Worth, Texas. Following retirement from the railroad, he and his wife moved back to Ada and owned a herd of registered Red Angus cattle. He was a member of Community Free Will Baptist Church in Pickett, Pontotoc County Cattle Association and Red Angus Association of America.

He married Bobbie Sue Voyles on December 5, 1957, at Gaar Corner Free Will Baptist Church.

Survivors include his wife, Bobbie Sue Hooser, of the home; a daughter, Devona Pearson; grandson, Taylor Pearson, Austin, Texas; aunt, Lois Roper, Ada; uncle, L. G. Hooser, Lightning Ridge; along with several cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by one son, Gregory Kent Hooser, his father, Toss A. Hooser, his mother Grace Hooser and a brother, Wilbur Hooser.

Bearers are Joe Summers, Frankie Bolin, Bill Roper, John Wood, Randy Doffin and Fred Parsons.

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Criswell Funeral Home