TOMMIE KLINE

ADA-Graveside services for Tommie D. Cheadle Kline, 90, Ada, are 10:00 a.m. Saturday at Swan Hill Cemetery, Rev. Bill Frazier will officiate. The Chickasaw Honor Guard will conduct military honors at the cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Friday at Criswell Funeral Home.

Mrs. Kline died Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at a local nursing home. She was born December 22, 1917 near Milburn, Oklahoma to Tom and Ethel Helms Cheadle. She graduated from Chilocco Indian School, near Newkirk in 1937. She then started to college at Murray State in Tishomingo. She left Murray State College and began working for Boeing Aircraft Company in Wichita, Kansas for a few years. She enlisted in the U. S. Navy on February 1, 1944 and served until 1945. She was a Pharmacist's Mate, 3rd Class Petty Officer when she was honorably discharged. She resumed her college education and graduated from Oklahoma College for Women in Chickasha, Oklahoma in 1950. Her major was Home Economics. She was a school teacher for several years in Shattuck.

She married Gene Kline June 22, 1954 in Stattuck, Oklahoma. He died in August 27, 2003. Mrs. Kline was employed as a Dietician in the Veteran's Hospital in North Little Rock, Arkansas in 1965. She and her family moved to Ada in 1980 and she began working for the Carl Albert Indian Hospital. She was the first dietician at Carl Albert Indian Hospital.

Survivors include one brother, Overton "Buck" Cheadle, Ada; two sisters, Julia Byrd, Ada, and Frances Bean, Wayland, Iowa; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, and two sisters, Georgia Alexander, and Shineesta Williams.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada