SARA GREGORY

ADA-Services for Sara Jo Coffman Gregory, 86, Ada, are 10:30 a.m. Monday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Carl Hayes will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m. Sunday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Gregory died Friday, October 2, 2009 at a local nursing home. She was born October 21, 1922 at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma to Walter Clarence and Annie Terry Edwards Coffman. She attended Pauls Valley schools and graduated from Pauls Valley High School in 1941.

She married Skeet Lawrence Gregory in Pauls Valley on February 20, 1943. Early in their marriage they traveled with a survey crew throughout Oklahoma, Texas and New Mexico. They also lived in Anadarko for a few years then moved to Pauls Valley, where her husband worked for the USDA Soil Conservation Service. This job moved them to Chickasha, Lindsay and Okmulgee, but most of their married life was spent with the SCS in Ada.

Survivors include a son, Lawrence (Larry) James Gregory; daughters, Andrea (Sam) Joan Gregory, Ada, Rebecca (Becky) Lucille Wilkerson and husband Kenny, Guthrie, and Barbara Jo Gose and husband Roger, Stillwater; a special niece, Elizabeth (Betsy) Rimmer and husband Jim, Houston, TX; grandson, Gregory Keith Wilkerson and wife Nicole and their children, Kennedy Ann and Bonnie Rose of Elgin, TX; granddaughter, Kristi Nicole Knierim and husband Jared and their daughters, Karis Grace and Lark Lynn of LaVergne, TN; granddaughter, Jaime Rebecca Cecil and husband Cliff and their daughters Kelly and Hailey and son Justin, Payton, CO, grandson, Derek Blaine Phillips, Estes Park, CO; a brother, Eugene Coffman and wife Earline, Galena Park, TX; sisters-in-law, Jerry Coffman, Pauls Valley, Johnnie Coffman, Pauls Valley and Pearl Coffman, Houston, TX; a special grandson, Jacob Jones, Ada; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, her parents and nine brothers and sisters.

Bearers will be Jim Rimmer, Terry Thornton, Keith Wilkerson, Wayne Jones, Glen Jones and Brian McCurdy. Honorary bearers will be Michael Mayer, Dave Bear, Gene Jones, Allen Randle and Paul and Nancy Brook Freeman.

The family says those who wish may make memorials to the American Red Cross or to Halo Hospice, 1298 N. Hills Shopping Center, Lonnie Abbott Blvd., Ada, OK 74820.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada