MILES KIMMEL, JR.

KINGSTON-Services for Miles Kimmel, Jr., 80, Kingston, formerly of Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Dalan Larason and Ed Bristol will officiate. Burial will follow at Lightning Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 7:00 until 9:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mr. Kimmel died Sunday, August 17, 2008 at a Madill hospital. He was born February 23, 1928 at Sapulpa, Oklahoma to Miles Franklin and Jessie Syble Shadrick Kimmel. He attended school in Bellflower, California.

He married Mary Lee Painter on October 25, 1947 in Silverton, Texas. He and his family moved to the Ada area in 1967 from Bristow, Oklahoma. They later moved to Kingston in 1995. Mr. Kimmel was employed with Halliburton and was also a farmer, and he was a member of the Enos Church of Christ.

Survivors include his wife, Mary Kimmel, of the home; three daughters, Mary Etta Blansett, Bristow, Jessie Ellen Meaders, Stringtown, and Quetta Faye Kimmel, Kingston; nine grandchildren; 17 great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren; two brothers, Charles Kimmel, Lincoln, Nebraska, and Enoch Kimmel, Eufaula, OK.

He was preceded in death by a son, Miles Randy Kimmel on July 13, 1996, and two sisters, Barbara Gurley, and Wynona Fennell.

Bearers will be his grandsons, Elliott Blansett, Thom Snead, Mike Gash, Jason Fuller, Shaune Kimmel, Jimmy Myers, Jason Kimmel, Luke Kimmel, and Roger Dalke. Honorary bearers will be great grandsons, Dalton Johnson, Wyatt Snead, C. J. Blansett, Seth Wright, Steven Wright, Ethen Kimmel, Braidyn Kimmel, Dylan Kimmel, Justin Myers, Aiden Dalke, Dustin Rabatine, and Brady Rabatine.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada