SYBLE MOORE

ADA-Services for Syble Chesney Sweetin Moore, 89, Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Tuesday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel. Bud Ross will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. Moore died Saturday, January 23, 2010 at her home. She was born February 27, 1920 at Kiowa, Oklahoma to Marvin Shelly and Havana Cuba Patton Sweetin. She and her family moved here in 1935 from Okmulgee, Oklahoma. She graduated from Ada High School in 1938 and received a Bachelor's degree from East Central University in 1955. She also received a Master's degree from East Central University.

Mrs. Moore taught school in the Ada area until 1963 and also taught in California from 1963 until 1978. She was a member of Central Church of Christ.

Survivors include a son, Dee F. Moore and wife Deanna, Ada; two grandsons, Deek Moore, Austin, TX and Davis Moore, Dallas, TX; a sister, Fern Downey and husband Jack, Perkins, OK; and two brothers, Duerd Sweetin and wife Faye, Blanco, OK, and Millard Sweetin and wife Pat, T I Valley, OK.

She was preceded in death by her parents, a brother, Gerald Fred Sweetin and a sister, Mary Day.

Bearers will be Jerald Ford, Benny Cope, Dee Kelly, Dell Howry, Deek Moore, and Davis Moore. Honorary bearers will be Carol Wainscott and Linda Downard.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada