Major Carl Cobb

Services for Major Carl Grady Cobb, 70, of Wanette are 1:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel in Ada, Revs. Kendell Martin and Pam Simpson will officiate. Burial will follow at Wanette Cemetery. The Chickasaw Honor Guard will conduct full military honors. The family will receive friends from 5:00 – 7:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Major Cobb passed away Saturday, November 3, 2018 at the Ardmore Veterans Center. He was born September 13, 1948 at Purcell, Oklahoma to David L. and Betty Jarnigan Cobb. He graduated from Southeast High School in Oklahoma City.

He married Sharon Lee Maloy Hooser November 13, 1987. Major Cobb served with the Oklahoma City Fire Department, retiring after 26 ½ years of service. He was a member of the Rosehill Pentecostal Church of God in Wanette and had served in the U. S. Army during the Vietnam War. He received a Purple Heart and Bronze Star.

Survivors include his wife, Sharon, of the home; a daughter, Melissa Gray; two sons, Sean Cobb and wife Julie and Carl T. Cobb and wife Trisha, all of Oklahoma City; a step-son, Joseph Hooser and wife Elva Enloe of Wanette; a step-daughter, Linda Milligan and husband Jason of Ada; 16 grandchildren, Alex and Bailey Cobb, T. J. and Bryce Cobb, Stephanie Woodell, Dalton Milligan, Lauren Cole, Krystan Buchanan, Matthew Hooser, Alicia Hooser, Thomas and Christopher Johnson, Cody Martin, Brianna Martin, Brogan Martin and Taylor Martin; nine great-grandchildren; two sisters, Wanda Smith and husband Eddie of Yukon and Linda Edens and husband George of Wanette; two sisters-in-law, Linda Smigelski and husband John of Sumter, SC and Pam Simpson of Ada; and numerous nieces, nephews, aunts, uncles and other relatives and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Janie Davis; a brother, Tommy Turner; niece, Tamarra Christian-Dreiske; and a great-niece, Michaela Christian.

The Oklahoma City Fire Department Honor Guard will serve as bearers.