ELMO YEARGAN
ADA-Services for Elmo Yeargan, 89, Ada, are 10 a.m. Tuesday at Life Community Church, the Revs. Paul Bettis, Rod Payne and Mickey Keith will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. Military honors will be conducted by the Chickasaw Nation Honor Guard at the cemetery.
Mr.Yeargan died Friday, Jan. 11, 2013, at an Ada hospital. He was born July 20, 1923, to Sam and Iva Simmons Yeargan at Roff. He attended Roff Schools. Mr. Yeargan owned Okey Dokey Drive In, Elmo's Drive In and Elmo's Used Cars. He opened the first carwash in Ada and the first serve yourself gas station. He served in the United States Army Air Corps during the Korean Conflict and was a member of Life Community Church.
He and JoAnn McCord Payne were married Jan. 25, 1985.
Survivors include his wife, JoAnn, of the home; a son, Paul Bettis and wife Pat, Norman; two daughters, Carolyn Kay Piaskowski, Choctaw, and Ruthie Lamb and husband Chad, Ada; a sister, Pauline Cofer and husband Bob, Wynnewood; 19 grandchildren and great-grandchildren; three stepchildren, Rod Payne and wife Vicky, Wichita Falls, Texas, Jeff Payne and wife Kathy, Beaumont, Texas, and Anne Reeves and husband Joe, Espanolo, New Mexico; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Harlis Yeargan, and three sisters, Edith Brown, Wanda Simco and Jerlene Williams.
Grandsons will serve as bearers.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada