MARY PIERCE
ALLEN-Services for Mary Susan "Sue" Pierce, 70, of Allen, are 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the First United Pentecostal Church in Ada, Rev. Daniel Johnson will officiate. Burial will follow at East Hill Cemetery in Roff.
Mrs. Pierce died Tuesday, February 14, 2012 at an Oklahoma City hospital. She was born July 1, 1941 in Davis, Oklahoma to Roy Oscar and Ollie Opal Frantz Hicks. She attended schools in Davis, Plainview and Daugherty, Oklahoma.
She married Arbra Wallace "A.W." Pierce on November 28, 1958 in Sulphur. She and her family lived in several different states during her husband's military career. After her husband's retirement in March 1977, Mary Sue and her family settled in Fitzhugh, Oklahoma. In 1995, Mary Sue and her family moved to Allen, Oklahoma where she resided until her death. Mrs. Pierce was a supervisor with J.P.Emco, United Auto Workers Union until her retirement. She was a member of the First United Pentecostal Church in Ada. She was a Sunday School teacher for many years, a member of a prayer group and the Daughter's of Zion. Mary Sue loved fishing, cooking, sewing, spending time with her grandchildren and great grandchildren, going to church and she always had a story about growing up in the country area around Davis, Oklahoma.
Survivors include her husband, Arbra Wallace "A.W." Pierce, of the home; four sons, John Roy Pierce and wife Pam of Granite City, IL, Terry Allen Pierce and wife Shanna of Allen, OK, Michael DeWayne Pierce and wife Ashley of Allen, OK, and Joshua Nathaniel Pierce of the home; one daughter, Samantha Diane McKay and husband Tim of Allen, OK; two sisters, Martha Opal "Janie" Moorman of Tecumseh, OK, and Reba Louise "Dooley" Moore of Ada; two brothers, Donald Roy Hicks of Davis and Ronnie Lee Hicks of Fitzhugh; six grandchildren, Anthony Pierce, Ethan Pierce, Alexis Pierce, all of Granite City, IL, Victoria Pierce of Oklahoma City, André Anne Figueroa of Lawton, and Emily McKay of Allen; four step-grandchildren, Meagan Wooley of Tulsa, Mica Wiley, Seth Wiley and Sarah Wiley, all of Illinois; two great grandchildren, Savannah Figueroa of Lawton and Landon Pierce of Granite City, IL; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Roy Oscar and Ollie Opal Hicks; three sons, Preston Dewayne Pierce, Tony Ray Pierce and Wallace Dean Pierce; one daughter-in-law, Donna Jeanette Pierce; two grandchildren, Melissa Susan Pierce and Amanda LéAnne Pierce; two brothers, Charles Ray Hicks and Darrel Wayne Hicks; and one sister, Betty Ruth Wyatt.
Bearers will be Charlie Hicks, Don Roy Hicks, Anthony Pierce, David Ray Grigg, Clayton Egar and Jeff Richardson. Honorary bearers will be Joshua Pierce, Tim McKay, and Chad Henry.
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Criswell Funeral Home, Ada