THELMA JEAN SAWYER
Graveside services for Thelma Jean Sawyer, 90, of Ada are 11:00 a.m. Monday at Maxwell Cemetery with her niece, Joanne Sweet Walston officiating.
Mrs. Sawyer died Friday, June 21, 2013 at a local nursing home. She was born September 15, 1922 in Bebee, Oklahoma to John L. and Myrtle Lamb Sweet. She was the eighth of ten siblings.
She married Harry C. Sawyer in 1953. He preceded her in death in 1980. Mrs. Sawyer was a nurse's aide at Jan Frances Care Center and retired in 1980.
Survivors include three sons, Tom Sawyer and wife Ava Orr of Calvin, Oklahoma, Louis Dunlap and wife Nancy of Ada and Arnold Thogmartin and wife Sandy of Sand Springs, California; three daughters, Barbara Smithwick of Ada, Arnetta Dunlap Brim of Alabama and Marlene Lee and husband Joe of Tulsa, Oklahoma; grandchildren, Shane Sawyer and his sister Jill, Angie, Becky , Brian Bevers and wife Jennifer of Ada, Rickey Bevers and wife Jessica of South Carolina, Kevin Bevers and wife Kenzie of Ada, Lisa Blackwell and husband Tim, Kelly Presley, Michael Presley, April Thogmartin, Janet Lee, David Lee and Paul Lee; great-grandchildren, Blake Bevers, Jake Bevers, Brianna Bevers, Makala Bevers, Shawn Bevers, Destin Bevers, Payton Bevers, Bryson Bevers, and many more grandchildren and great-grandchildren; one brother, Woodrow "Woody" Sweet of San Francisco, California who is 98 years young and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband Harry Sawyer and nine brothers and sisters.
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