JAMES TACKETT

MOUNDS-Services for James O. Tackett, 75, Mounds, are 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Mounds Assembly of God Church, Rev. Kenneth Creason officiating. Burial follows at Green Hill Memorial Gardens in Sapulpa.

Mr. Tackett died on Sunday, November 15, 2009, in Sapulpa. He was born December 3, 1933, in Hickory, Oklahoma, to John Steve and Flora Bell Blevins Tackett. He attended school at McLish School in Fittstown. James and Jean made their home in Mounds for 43 years, and he worked as a welder at Flint Steel in Tulsa for 24 years before retiring. He spent many years volunteering his time as a little league baseball coach and was always proud of his boys.

In 1959 he married Robbie Jean Shook. They were married almost 51 years.

James is survived by his wife of 50 years, Jean, of the home; daughter, Alicia and son-in-law, Robert of Tulsa; a granddaughter, Kyla of Mounds; two grandsons, Joshua and Michael, both of Tulsa; two great grandsons, Bradley and Julien, and one great granddaughter, Lilly, all of Mounds; three sisters, Cleo Hinton of Sun City, California; Helen Hooper of Cleveland, Oklahoma; and Bea Rowley of Tulsa, Oklahoma; four brothers, Carl Tackett of Fittstown, Oklahoma; Eugene Tackett of San Diego, California; Hollis Tackett of Bixby, Oklahoma; and Howard Tackett of Chelsea, Oklahoma. James was preceded in death by his parents, John Steve and Flora Bell Tackett, a brother, Jerry Tackett, and a sister, Edna Lee Spradlin.

Green Hill Funeral Home
Sapulpa, Oklahoma