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IN LOVING MEMORY OF Bonita Marie Todd
Bonita Marie
Todd
June 17, 1918 – January 28, 2008
Bonita Marie Todd's Obituary
BONITA TODD
ADA-Services for Bonita Marie Evans Folger Todd, 89, Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Friday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Pastor Tom Burton and Rev. Harold Ware will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Todd died Monday, January 28, 2008 at a Shawnee hospital. She was born June 17, 1918 at Lehigh, Oklahoma to William Willis and Madgie Claire Harrison Evans. She attended Midway school and graduated from Lehigh High School. She moved to Ada in 1937 from Lehigh, Oklahoma.
She married Norman M. Folger, December 28, 1937 at Atoka, Oklahoma. He died October 20, 1976 in Ada. She later married Albert Leon Todd, December 5, 1981 at Seminole, Oklahoma. He died November 28, 1992 at Stratford. During World War II, she was employed at the Douglas Defense Plant in Oklahoma City and was a "Rosie the Rivetor" She and her husband, Norman Folger, operated the McSwain Sandwich Shop from 1938 until 1957. During the 1960's and the 1970's, she was a manager for Tupperware Sales Corporation. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Ada, and had been a member of the Ada Rebekah Lodge, Ada Fireflies, Companions 'N' Caring, Home Demonstration Club, and was a volunteer with the Valley View Regional Hospital Auxiliary for over 25 years. Bonita was very proud of her poetry and had been published in such prestigious publications as "World Poetry Anthology", "Great Poems of the Western World", and an edition of "Treasured Poems of America", and she was an avid fisherman.
Survivors include two sons, Don Folger, Ada, and Guy Folger, McAlester; a sister, Lois Jackson, Oklahoma City; a brother, Orville Evans, Porterville, California; and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Melvin Harrison, Ivan Harrison, and Warren Evans; a sister, Octavia Wood; and a grandson, Karl Folger.
Bearers will be Otis Martin, Darrell Stallings, Bill Rice, Jr., Mark Summers, Chris Folger, and Jack Folger. Honorary bearers will be Darrell Folger, Steven Folger, David Folger, James Rosson and the residents of the Ada Baptist Village.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
ADA-Services for Bonita Marie Evans Folger Todd, 89, Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Friday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Pastor Tom Burton and Rev. Harold Ware will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. Todd died Monday, January 28, 2008 at a Shawnee hospital. She was born June 17, 1918 at Lehigh, Oklahoma to William Willis and Madgie Claire Harrison Evans. She attended Midway school and graduated from Lehigh High School. She moved to Ada in 1937 from Lehigh, Oklahoma.
She married Norman M. Folger, December 28, 1937 at Atoka, Oklahoma. He died October 20, 1976 in Ada. She later married Albert Leon Todd, December 5, 1981 at Seminole, Oklahoma. He died November 28, 1992 at Stratford. During World War II, she was employed at the Douglas Defense Plant in Oklahoma City and was a "Rosie the Rivetor" She and her husband, Norman Folger, operated the McSwain Sandwich Shop from 1938 until 1957. During the 1960's and the 1970's, she was a manager for Tupperware Sales Corporation. She was a longtime member of the First Baptist Church of Ada, and had been a member of the Ada Rebekah Lodge, Ada Fireflies, Companions 'N' Caring, Home Demonstration Club, and was a volunteer with the Valley View Regional Hospital Auxiliary for over 25 years. Bonita was very proud of her poetry and had been published in such prestigious publications as "World Poetry Anthology", "Great Poems of the Western World", and an edition of "Treasured Poems of America", and she was an avid fisherman.
Survivors include two sons, Don Folger, Ada, and Guy Folger, McAlester; a sister, Lois Jackson, Oklahoma City; a brother, Orville Evans, Porterville, California; and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, three brothers, Melvin Harrison, Ivan Harrison, and Warren Evans; a sister, Octavia Wood; and a grandson, Karl Folger.
Bearers will be Otis Martin, Darrell Stallings, Bill Rice, Jr., Mark Summers, Chris Folger, and Jack Folger. Honorary bearers will be Darrell Folger, Steven Folger, David Folger, James Rosson and the residents of the Ada Baptist Village.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
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