DEWAYNE BRYAN
ADA-Services for Melvin DeWayne Bryan, 69, of Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Monday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Aaron Finney will officiate. Burial will follow at Five-Mile Cemetery east of Ada.
Mr. Bryan died Thursday, August 7, 2014 at a local hospital. He was born October 26, 1944 in Ada to Audie M. and Geraldine Melton Bryan. He attended Happyland grade school and graduated from Byng High School. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from East Central University and taught Industrial Arts at Wetumka High School and the Oklahoma School for the Deaf in Sulphur. Mr. Bryan was a member of the Happyland Free Will Baptist Church and had served in the U. S. Army Reserve.
Survivors include a son, Michael Bryan and his wife Christy Bryan of Wilburton; a daughter, Jennifer Smith and her husband Chris of Holdenville; two brothers, Glen Bryan and his wife Doris of Vamoosa and John Bryan and his wife Judy of Ada; and four grandchildren, Tyler and Logan Bryan and Riley and Michaela Gaines.
He was preceded in death by his parents; and a sister-in-law, Penny Bryan.
Bearers will be Michael Bryan, Chris Smith, Chris Bryan, K. C. Bryan, Robert Werner and Steve Allen. Honorary bearers will be Glen Bryan and John Bryan.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada