Area Obituaries

No services for Larry Dee Scroggins, age 68, an Atoka resident since 2015, are planned at this time. Arrangements were under the direction of Brown’s Funeral Service, in Atoka. Scroggins passed away on Tuesday, April 20, 2021, in Denison, Texas. He was born on Saturday, April 11, 1953, to Earnest Melvin and Flora Mae (Patton)…

Graveside services for Thyra Alice (Cox) Gudgel, age 72 years, 11 months and 2 days, a longtime Atoka resident, were held at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday, April 24, 2021, at Boggy Depot Cemetery, in Boggy Depot, with Kevin White officiating. Interment was in Boggy Depot Cemetery, at Boggy Depot. Services were under the direction of…

Funeral services for Billy Don Wills, Sr., age 62 years and 20 days, an Enid resident, formerly a longtime Atoka resident, were held at 2:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 17, 2021, at Brown’s Funeral Service Chapel, in Atoka, with Brother Richard Magby officiating. Interment was in Green Meadows Cemetery, at Atoka. Services were under the…

Funeral services for Doyle Franklin Lansdale, Jr., age 67, a resident of Breckenridge, Missouri, will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, April 24, 2021, at Brown’s Funeral Service Chapel, in Atoka. Interment will be in Mount Olive Cemetery, at Stringtown. Arrangements are under the direction of Pitts Funeral Home, in Breckenridge, Missouri. Lansdale passed…

Funeral services for Deborah Elizabeth Martin, age 9 months and 2 days, a Tupelo resident, were held at 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 8, 2021, at Brown’s Funeral Service Chapel, in Coalgate, with Pastor Larry Beach officiating. Interment was in Byrd’s Prairie Cemetery. Services were under the direction of Brown’s Funeral Service, in Coalgate. Martin…

Funeral services for Irma Lou (Mitchell) Rains, age 76, a longtime Atoka resident, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Bentley Baptist Church, in Bentley, with Brother Jim Lewis and Brother Jeff Culbreath officiating. Interment will be in Bentley Cemetery, at Bentley. Services are under the direction of Brown’s Funeral…

Graveside services for Joy (Armstrong) Blankenship, age 76 years, 9 months and 27 days, an Atoka resident, will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, at Tushka Cemetery, in Tushka, with Pastor Jeremy Parham officiating. Interment will be in Tushka Cemetery, at Tushka. Services are under the direction of Atoka Funeral Home,…

Funeral services for Nita Faye (Wiggins) Anderson, age 90, a lifelong resident of the Boehler Community, will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 15, 2021, at Crystal Baptist Church, in Crystal, with the Reverend Jeremy Parham officiating. Interment will be in Crystal Cemetery, at Crystal. Services are under the direction of Brown’s Funeral…

No services are planned for Pamela Denise (Criner) Sefcik, age 61, an Atoka resident. Arrangements are under the direction of Brown’s Funeral Service, in Atoka. Sefcik passed away on Friday, April 9, 2021, in Atoka. She was born on Monday, October 26, 1959, to Donald and Virginia May (Williams) Criner, at Coalgate. Sefcik attended Tushka…