HERBERT STILES

ADA-Services for Herbert Junior Stiles, 85, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Monday at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rev. Robert Ware and Terry Stiles will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 2:00 p.m. until 4:00 p.m. Sunday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mr. Stiles died Friday, December 5, 2008 at a local hospital. He was born July 20, 1923 at Stratford, Oklahoma to Herbert Chester and Dillie Mae Thompson Stiles. He attended schools at Egypt, Irving Elementary and Ada Junior High.

He married Dorotha Abbott on December 13, 1942 at Ada, Oklahoma. Mr. Stiles retired in 1976 after 30 years of service as a maintenance employee at Brockway Glass Company. He and his wife later owned and operated the Dairyland Drive-In. Mr. Stiles was a member of the First Pentecostal Holiness Church and a founding member of the Pontotoc County Coon Hunters Association.

Survivors include his wife, Dorotha Stiles, of the home; two sons, Larry Stiles and wife Arnon, Ada, and Terry Stiles and wife Kay, Tecumseh; seven grandchildren, Shayne Stiles, Robin McCoy, Ryan Stiles, Jeremy O'Brien, Jeff O'Brien, Levi Peck, and Austin Peck; and ten great grandchildren.

Bearers will be his grandsons, Jeremy O'Brien, Chris McCoy, Shayne Stiles, Ryan Stiles, Austin Peck and Levi Peck. Honorary bearers will be Glen Owens, Harrel Crawford, Gene Garner, Britton Crawford, and Lester Remer.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada