CLAUDE DELOZIER

ADA-Services for Claude DeLozier, 87, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Revs. Joe Howry and Tony Peak will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mr. DeLozier died Wednesday, April 1, 2009 at his home. He was born November 29, 1921 at Stonewall, Oklahoma to Vit and Britt Lydia Delozier. He lived in this area all his life.

He married Lela Mae Newton on August 10, 1954. Mr. DeLozier was a welder for B & B Tool Company retiring in 1990. He was of the baptist faith.

Survivors include his wife, Lela Mae Newton DeLozier, of the home; ten sons, Cliff DeLozier and wife Betty, Stonewall, Don DeLozier, Seminole, Lee DeLozier and wife Jeanie, Clayton, Larry DeLozier and wife Jeanie, Auburn, IN, Gene DeLozier, Stonewall, Roger DeLozier and wife Vickie, Ada, E. M. DeLozier and wife Donna, Muskogee, Claude DeLozier and wife Darla, Midland, TX, Jackie DeLozier and wife Donna, Crosset, AK, and Earl DeLozier and wife Pam, Ada; four daughters, Connie Campbell and husband Buddy, Ada, Claudine Sizemore and husband Glen, Checotah, Lela Vandewalker and husband Steve, Shawnee, and Patty Howry and husband Coy, Ada; 34 grandchildren; 45 great grandchildren; and 2 great great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Vit and Lydia DeLozier; four brothers, John, Jess, Rube, and Bill; a sister, Viola Easley; a son, Johnny Dewayne DeLozier in 1991; one grandchild; and one great grandchild.

Bearers will be his grandsons, Tony DeLozier, Danny Howry, Jason Goodwin, Jason Campbell, Mark Johnston, Philliph DeLozier, Brian Engel, and Jeff DeLozier. Honorary bearers will be the remaining grandsons.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada