EUNICE TILLERY

ATWOOD-Services for Eunice Berneice Tillery, 87, Atwood, are 10:00 a.m. Monday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Revs. Glenn Cranfield and Greg Cranfield will officiate. Burial will follow at Allen Cemetery.

Mrs. Tillery died Wednesday, April 15, 2009 at Oklahoma City. She was born October 14, 1921 at DeKalb, Texas to H. A. and Cassie Lewis McDonald. She lived most of her life in this area and attended Francis schools.

She married Virgil Tillery on September 14, 1938. He preceded her in death on June 18, 1982. Mrs. Tillery was a department store sales clerk and also a homemaker. She was a member of the Church of God of Prophecy in Ada and Allen.

Survivors include two daughters, Linda Cranfield and husband David, Atwood, and Janet Corvin, Indianapolis, IN; one son, Charles Tillery and wife Kathy, Pickton, TX; a son-in-law, Dr. Leroy Carpenter, Oklahoma City, OK; four sisters, Irene Ware, Canton, TX, Louise Hodge, Moore, OK, Melba Garner, Richmond, MO, and Artie Anderson, Decatur, GA; eleven grandchildren; 29 great grandchildren; and one great great grandchild.

She was preceded in death by a son, Virgil Ray Tillery; a daughter, Carol Carpenter; two brothers, Troy McDonald and James McDonald; a sister, Lois Hudson; a granddaughter, Cecelia Berneice Corvin; and a great grandson, Blake Aaron Cranfield.

Her grandchildren will serve as bearers.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada