HAZEL CARTER
ADA-Graveside services for Hazel F. Carter, 79, of Ada, are 10:00 a.m Friday at the Atwood Cemetery, Sister Omega Carson will officiate. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Thursday at Criswell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Carter died Tuesday, July 8, 2014 at home. She was born November 24, 1934 at Panther Creek, Oklahoma to Clyde Albert Collard and Ruby Fredia Weaver Collard. She graduated from high school and attended college.
She married Bruce Jackson Carter on February 15, 1979 in Paris, Texas. He preceded her in death on September 11, 2013 in Ada. Mrs. Carter was the owner/operator of two grocery stores, one in Calvin and one in Atwood.
Survivors include two sons, Terry Abney and his wife Loretta of Ada and Larry Colbert and his wife Paula of Allen; a daughter, Kay Colbert Hall and her husband Mike of Ada; a brother, Carl Collard and wife Pat of Calvin; two sisters, Gladys Wilkes of Ada and Wanda Sue Black of Atwood; her grandchildren, Teddy and Tammy Abney, Tammy and Willy Anderson, Lisa and Jarrod Newby, Lindsey and Lucas Cane, Adam Colbert, Justin and Randi Colbert, Chad and Taylor Colbert, Daniel Cabo and Dustie and Josh Alm; and 15 great grandchildren, Madison, Maebree and Tucker Abney, Landon, Lakelyn, Laney and Lundyn Anderson, Bradley, Buddy and Brady Cane, Jaxie and Jenx Newby, Kaytlin and Joshua Alm, Jr. and Riley Saige Colbert.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a brother, Ernest Collard; and a sister, Dorothea Arthur.
Bearers will be grandsons and honorary bearers will be her great-grandsons and Willy Anderson, Lucas Cane, Jarrod Newby, and Josh Alm.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada