KENNETH RHYNES
ADA-Services for Kenneth Gaylon Rhynes, 85, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Monday at the First Pentecostal Holiness Church, Rev. Robert Brown will officiate assisted by Rev. Robert Ware. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. Rhynes died Friday, August 7, 2009 at a local hospital. He was born October 19, 1923 at Lamar, Arkansas to Denis and Velma Belling Rhynes. He and his family moved to Ada in 1938 from Arkansas. He graduated from Ada High School and attended East Central College.
Kenneth and Olga celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary this year. They were married March 20, 1949 at the Assembly of God Church in Fittstown. Mr. Rhynes was the owner of Rhynes Surplus in downtown Ada from 1938 until retiring in 1988. He attended the First Pentecostal Holiness Church.
Survivors include his wife, Olga Rhynes, of the home; three sons, Gary Rhynes, Thackerville, Keith Rhynes and wife Barbara, Durant, and Kenny Rhynes and wife Donna, Ada; two daughters, Karen Rhodes and husband George, Ada, and Becky Jackson and husband Gary, Ada; two sisters, Mary Burnett, Newcastle, and Inez Agee and husband Calvin, Sulphur; sixteen grandchildren; and eight great grandchildren.
Bearers will be his grandsons, Garrett Rhynes, David Rhynes, Jason Rhynes, Dallas Rhynes, Lance Rhynes, Scott Rhodes, Trey Rhynes, Tyler Jackson, Kyle Jackson and Kevin Jackson.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada