BRUCE JOHNSTON
STRATFORD-A Dinner will be at the First Baptist Church, Stonewall at 12:00 noon Wednesday with services for "Bruce" Jacky Dale Johnston, 69, of Stratford, to follow at 2:00 p.m., Revs. Larry Hawkins and David Fortner will officiate. Burial will follow at Dolberg Cemetery.
Mr. Johnston died Sunday, March 3, 2013 at a Shawnee hospital. He was born May 29, 1943 in Lula, Oklahoma to William Edward and Alice Davis Johnston. He graduated from Stonewall High School.
He married Phyllis Ann Potter on April 24, 1986 at Gainesville, TX. Mr. Johnston was a tool fisherman for Weatherford Petco Entera and had served in the U. S. Air Force as a Military Police and dog-handler.
Survivors include his wife, Phyllis Johnston, of the home; three daughters, Linda Wade and her husband Lee, Sulphur, Vonita Scott, Stratford, and Tammy Eldred, Tennessee; a son, Moe Eldred and his wife Tonya, Tecumseh; two brothers, Tanner Johnston and wife Lorice, Ada, and Tommy Johnston and wife Vicki, Stonewall; a sister, Judie Dull and husband Richard, Panama City, FL; his grandchildren, Heather Pettit, Tennessee, April Kestner and husband Kevin, Tennessee, Chelsea Pettit, Konawa, Tiner Day, Stratford, Shelby Eldred and her fiancé, Montana Carson, Tecumseh, Hannah Spencer, Sulphur, Colby Eldred, Tecumseh and Lillie Spencer, Sulphur; and his mother-in-law, Juanita Tiner, Gaar Corner.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Lavonda Johnston; two grandchildren, Taylor Mikell Scott and Brooklyn Haley Krause; and a brother, Billy Don Johnston.
Bearers will be the Stonewall High School Class of 1961.
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Criswell Funeral Home, Ada