Patty Sanders

Services for Patricia Jean "Patty" Sanders, 70, of Ada are 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Pastor Mickey Keith will officiate. Burial will follow at Jesse Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Sanders passed away Saturday, May 26, 2018 at an Ada assisted living center. She was born August 13, 1947 at Jesse to Winford Winfield and Bessie Loriene Elam Whittington.

She married Stanley Sanders June 25, 1999 in Eureka Springs, AR. Mrs. Sanders was a secretary/bookkeeper for Cap Oil Company until her retirement.

Survivors include her husband, Stanley, of the home; two sons, Curtis Blevins and wife Lisa of Ada and Kent Blevins and wife Kim of Wynnewood; her bonus children, Stanley Sanders and wife Brenda of Fulshear, TX and Tonna Etier and husband Dewayne of Peaster, TX; 14 grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren; a brother, Curtis Whittington and wife Marsha, Ada; three sisters, Melba Wilson and husband Ken, McAlester, Syble Prince, Ada and Carolyn Selby and husband Ray, Lovington, NM; and other relatives and friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a daughter, Tracy Annette Blevins; a bonus daughter, Jeneay Sanders; four sisters, Jewel Adams, Billie Mae Kellogg, Bernice Sanders and Mary Whittington; and three brothers, Donald Whittington, Charles "Chink" Whittington, and Everett "Huck" Whittington.

Bearers will be Kent Blevins, Curtis Blevins, Theran Smith, Dewayne Etier, Quinton Blevins and Patrick Blevins.