PAULINE TATUM

ADA-Services for Pauline Turner Tatum, 86, Ada are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at Morris Memorial Baptist Church, Rev. Gary Jamar will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Tatum died Saturday, May 16, 2009 at her son's home. She was born November 8, 1922 at Ada, Oklahoma to Jay Christopher and Ethel Mae Odom Turner. She lived in this area all her life.

She married Dave Sanford Tatum November 15, 1938 in Pontotoc County, Oklahoma. Mr. Tatum preceded her in death. Mrs. Tatum was a labeler for Wrangler/Blue Bell Company in Ada until medical retirement, a charter member of Morris Memorial Baptist Church and a volunteer at the Ada Public Library.

Survivors include a son, Ishmel Tatum and wife Oma, Ada; one daughter, Linda Davis, Oklahoma City; two brothers, Bill Turner and wife Mary, Shelby, IN, and Sam Turner and wife Ruby, Ada; six grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren; thirteen great great grandchildren; and six great great great grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a step-daughter, Ethelyne Tatum Arterburn; two sisters, Katherine Shay and Nora Ruth Taylor; a grandson, Punch Houchen; and a granddaughter, Debbie Houchen.

Bearers will be Terry Dunn, Woody Wilson, Mickey Tatum, Jimmy Jackson, Mike Wilkinson, and Bill Turner.

Criswell Funeral Home.