WYLIE WEBSTER

ROFF-Services for Wylie Payne Webster, 72, Roff, are 2:00 p.m. Thursday at the Lightning Ridge Baptist Church, Rev. Dean Stone will officiate. Burial will follow at Lightning Ridge Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Criswell Funeral Home.

Mr. Webster died Saturday, September 5, 2009 at a local hospital. He was born November 8, 1936 at Lightning Ridge to Blaine Bliss and Lillie Mae Coffey Webster. He lived in this area all his life and attended Lightning Ridge grade school and graduated from Vanoss High School. He attended East Central University for two years.

He married June Stephens on June 9, 1955. He later married Linda Nye on March 25, 1962. He married Dora Cross in 1999. She preceded him in death January 2008. Mr. Webster was a farmer and had served as state president of the Young Farmers Association in 1975.

Survivors include two daughters, Elizabeth Ann Melson, Tucson, AZ and Susan Marie Pinley and husband David Glen Pinley, Ada; two sons, Donnie Gene Higginbotham, Ada and Woody Woodrow Burnes and wife Judy, Little Axe; a son-in-law, John Luna, Pea Ridge, AR.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one son, Johnny Lee Burnes and a daughter, Georganna May Webster Luna.

Bearers will be grandsons, Kenny Nault, Kevin Pinley, Donnie Higginbotham II, Shannon Nault, Ryan Johnson, Johnathan Burns and sons-in-law, David Pinley and John Luna. Honorary bearers will be Ryan Temple, John Cross, Breann Pinley, Angela Higginbotham, Brittany Burnes, Tori Luna, Kristy Nault, Michelle Nault and Jennifer Cummings.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada