Elwanda

Kelso

Elwanda Kelso

Services for Elwanda Louise Kelso, 93, of Ada are 1:00 p.m. Monday, November 16, 2026, at Criswell Funeral Home. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Kelso died Wednesday, November 11, 2026, at a Lexington nursing home. She was born January 16, 1933, in Vanoss to Alfred Herman and Edith Carmen Farr Sutton.

She married Warren Kelso on January 20, 1956, in Ada. Mrs. Kelso was a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co.

She was a mother to all, with a heart that loved everyone with no bounds. She always had busy hands in the kitchen making sure all were fed with cheeseburgers, pizza or homemade pies. She instilled a generational faith and love for our Lord, her greatest ministry was loving and raising her family.

Survivors include her children, Kent Kelso and wife Tracy of Tulsa, Clark Kelso of Ada and Carla Rhoads and husband Kevin of Purcell; two brothers, David Sutton and wife Kathleen of McKinney, TX and Delton Sutton and wife LaHonda of Ada; five grandchildren, Leslie Paddock, Joy McCune and husband Tray, Mallory Starnes and husband Eric, Lauren Melvin and husband Timmy and Alyssa Wartchow and husband Cole; and eleven great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Warren Kelso; parents, Alfred and Edith Sutton; two sisters, Evelyn King and Donis McDonald; three brothers, Charles, Paul, and Butch Sutton; and daughter-in-law, Sandy Kelso.

Bearers will be Kent Kelso, Clark Kelso, Kevin Rhoads, Timmy Melvin, Cole Wartchow and Eric Starnes.