BONNIE GREGORY
ADA-Services for Bonnie Jean Gregory, 83, of Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Floyd Kaiser and Bobby Johns will officiate. Burial will follow at Byrd's Prairie Cemetery at Tupelo.
Mrs. Gregory died Sunday, November 10, 2013 at a local nursing home. She was born June 15, 1930 at Wister, Oklahoma to Marion Olen and Mary Elizabeth Bullard Canida. She attended Tupelo schools.
She married Earl Lee Gregory on August 31, 1946 in Sherman, Texas. He preceded her in death on August 24, 1992. She and her husband moved to Ada from California in 1985 after retiring. They had lived in California for over 30 years. Mrs. Gregory was a homemaker, and longtime member of Southwest Church of Christ and had also volunteered for Meals-on-Wheels and the food pantry.
Survivors include her children, Sherry Burell and husband Ray of Ada, Rick Gregory and wife Terri of Taft, CA, Carolyn Furstenfeld of Ada; 13 grandchildren; 26 great grandchildren; 8 great great grandchildren; a sister, Billie Gray and her husband Don of Pickett; a sister-in-law, Jessie Canida of Ada; and 37 nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a son, Don Gregory; daughter, Glenda Patterson; her brothers, Paul Canida, Earl Canida, Burl Canida, Bill Canida, and David Canida; and her sisters, Pearl Kolb, Jo Burnside, Opal Canida, Hazel Swenson, Wanda Cogburn, and Joyce Holland; and grandchildren, Christa Burrell, and Gregory twins; and great grandchild, Gregory Michael Gibson.
Bearers will be Mike Kolb, Charles Canida, Bobby Canida, Eric Patterson, Randy Armstrong and Roger Fowler. Honorary bearers will be Brian Whitley, Greg Chilcoat, and Alan Simpson.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada