GEORGIA LOU ADAIR CHILDRESS

Funeral services for Georgia Lou Childress, 79, Caney were conducted Sunday, April 5th, 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church in Chaney with Rev. Bob Johnson officiating.

Burial was in the Caney Cemetery under the direction of Atoka Funeral Home.

A housewife, she was dead on arrival at Atoka Memorial Hospital on April 2, 1992. Born in Caney on January 15, 1913, she was the daughter of George Mattison Adair and Erma Catherine Gilbert Adair. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Caney.

She was married to Lawrence Millard Childress at Durant on September 19, 1932. He preceded her in death.

Survivors include one son, Bob Childress, Hurst, Texas; a daughter, Iris Roland of Francis, Oklahoma; six grandchildren, nine great-grandchildren, four sisters, Bernice Hoffhines, Dallas, Texas; Ruby Emert of Durant; Ruthylene Hall, Colorado Springs, Colorado; and Myrtle Byrum of Atoka, two brothers, Joe Adair of Atoka, and Royal Adair, Midlothian, Texas; several nieces and nephews and a host of friends.

Honary pallbearer was Warren Hopkins.

Active pallbearers were Gary Green, Robert Childress, Darrell Roland, Richard Roland, T. A. McBride and Kent Soward.

Submitted by Erma Byrum Tankersley, April 14, 2000