Muskogee Daily Phoenix and Times-Democrat
Muskogeee, Oklahoma
February 03, 2009
Elsie Atchison was born January 20, 1937 in Charleston, AR, the
eldest of ten children born to Ira & Helen Flynn. She died on
Saturday, January 31, 2009 at the age of 72.
Elsie , at the age of 24, married Thomas Brooks. They had 4
girls and 2 boys. On March 22, 1997, she married Bill Atchison
and became step mother to two step daughters. She was a devoted
wife, mother and grandmother who loved her family very much.
She is survived by her husband, Bill Atchison; her brothers,
James Flynn, William Flynn, Ira Flynn, Jackie Flynn, and Ronnie
Flynn; sisters, Letha Harrison, Mary Gray, Betty McDonald and
Janice Johnson; her daughters, Wanda Fisher, Debra Lecompte,
Melissa Sanders and Patrisha Best; sons, Eugene Brooks and
Thomas Brooks; sons-in-law, Vince Lecompte, Kirk Lumus, Danny
Ritchie, and Roger Best; 5 grandsons: Johnny Brooks, Jason
Brooks, Sherman “Bubby” Best, Roger Best, Jr. and Christian
Best; 11 granddaughters, Cherrl Bosh, Debra Tatum, Candy
Lindsey, April Ford, Jacqueline Wolfe, Janette Fisher, Tina
Brooks, Dominique Best, Lashonda Best, Christina Brooks, Amelia
Best and fourteen great grandchildren: Sarann, Skyland, Julie,
Cheyenne, Kaylynn, Makayla, Kaden, Dakota, Grant, Colby, Kayle,
Hannah, Kristin, and Page; and step daughters, Bissy & Sharolyn
Kay. Preceding her in death were her parents and her first
husband, Thomas Brooks.
Services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Thursday, February 5, 2009
at the New Hope Cemetery, Spiro, OK with Pastor Darell Johnson
officiating. Honorary pallbearers are Doug Ford, Jason Brooks,
Dason Lindsey, Clint Gray, Mitchell Lamar, Charlie Gray, Ira,
James, William, Jack and Ronnie Flynn.
The family has entrusted Bradley Family Funeral Service of
Muskogee with the arrangements.
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