VERNON MCCARTY

TULSA-Services for Vernon E. (Sonny Lloyd) McCarty, 70, Tulsa, are 10:00 a.m. Thursday at the Nick Reynolds Funeral Service at 19th and Sheridan in Tulsa, Rev. Rick Matthews will officiate. A Committal Service will be 3:00 p.m. Thursday at the Byrd's Prairie Cemetery in Tupelo.

Mr. McCarty died Monday, July 7, 2008 at a Tulsa hospital. He was born November 11, 1937 at Jesse, Oklahoma to Don Gipson and Juanita McCarty. He graduated from Tupelo High School and from Okmulgee Tech.

He married Ginger Margaret Price. He later married Bonnie Flohr on September 3, 1994. Mr. McCarty was the Manager for Jones Academy Boarding School in Hartshorne from 1962 until 1984. Later, he was a Safety Officer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1984 until 1998. He was of the Baptist faith.

Survivors include his wife, Bonnie McCarty, of the home; two sons, Russell McCarty, Tahlequah and Gary McCarty and wife Dorothy, Adamson, Oklahoma; one daughter, Tonya May, Tahlequah; a step-son, Keith Willbourn, Cleveland, Oklahoma; and a step-daughter, Lisa Bunde, Cleveland, Oklahoma; fourteen grandchildren; and eight great grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his mother, Juanita McCarty Lloyd and step-father, Ben Lloyd.

Honorary pallbearers are Max Quinn, Bill Latimer, Steve Chism and Paul Kessler.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada