GINGER FUSSELL
ADA-Services for Virginia Lou "Ginger" Fussell, 91, Ada, are 10:30 A.M. Thursday, December 27, at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Floyd Kaiser will officiate. Burial will follow at Lightning Ridge Cemetery.
Mrs. Fussell died Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012 in Ada. She was born Dec. 1, 1921 at Royal, Oklahoma to Thomas Bunyon and Mary Jane Burton Weatherford. She lived most of her life in this area and graduated from Byng High School.
She married Leonard Wade on April 21, 1941 in Ada. He died October 21, 1948 in Oakland, California. She later married Bobby Jeff Fussell, December 9, 1950 in Ada. He died January 13, 1996 in Ada. Mrs. Fussell was an accounting clerk for Montgomery Ward and later for Rural Electric Co-op, now People's Electric Co-op for many years. She owned and operated her own beauty shop in Roff and later became a Head Start instructor for the Roff School System at Fitzhugh. She retired from Head Start in 1977. She loved working with young children and was known by many as Miss Ginger. She was a member of Southwest Church of Christ in Ada.
Survivors include two daughters, Linda Medlock and her husband Joe, Ada and Annette Price and her husband Donald, Ada; four grandchildren, Cathy Eaves and her husband Russell, Ada, Mark Medlock, Ada, Bobby Price and his wife Vicki, Ada, and Shawn Price, Ada; eight great grandchildren; and three great great grandchildren; sister, Jean Hammonds and her husband Jim, Muskogee; brother, Wayne Weatherford and his wife Geri, Willows, California; and numerous nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her parents and two sisters, Sue Kelly and Clema Duoto.
Bearers will be her grandsons and great grandsons, Bobby Price, Shawn Price, Mark Medlock, Donny Price, Wesley Medlock and Kenny Mayfield.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.
Criswell Funeral Home