O.K. Bivins Dies at 66

O.K. Bivins, 66, of 3345 NW 27, who was director of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation during the 1950's, died Tuesday at home.

Services tentatively have been set for 10 a.m. Friday at the Ramona First Baptist Church, Ramona, with burial in Ramona, directed by the Arnold Moore Funeral Service, Bartlesville.

Bivins was one of the original troopers in the Oklahoma Highway Patrol, which he joined in 1937. He worked at the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation and was later appointed an assistant director. He served as director of the bureau from 1952 to 1959.

He was appointed executive director of the Oklahoma Sheriffs and Peace Officers Association in 1960, serving until his retirement in 1975.

A native of Ramona and a 1932 graduate of Ramona High School, he was a 30-years resident in Oklahoma City.

He was a Shriner and a member of the McAlester Consistory.

Survivors include his wife, Elizabeth "Betty"; two sisters, Mrs. Robert A (Bernice) Hamlin, of Bartlesville, and Mrs. Maude Marley, of Wichita, Kan., and several nieces and nephews.

Elizabeth Bivins, age 88, died Saturday, October 3, 1998 at a local nursing home. She had lived in McAlester for the past seven years, moving from Oklahoma City where she had lived for fifty years. She was a retired school teacher; she taught at Putnam City Grade School (6th grade) for 18 years. She was of the Baptist faith.

Elizabeth was born April 8, 1910 in McAlester, Oklahoma to Louis H. and Ethel May Morgan Button. She graduated from McAlester High School in 1928. She attended Oklahoma A&M College at Stillwater, Oklahoma and Southeast Teachers College in Durant, Oklahoma. She graduated from Central State University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in 1939.

She married Owen Knight Bivins in January, 1939 at Edmond, Oklahoma. She is preceded in death by her parents, husband, and one sister, Martha B. Bivins.<p>She is survived by two nieces: Rebecca McEwin of Ada, Oklahoma, and Liz Hungerford of McAlester, Oklahoma.<p>Graveside services will be 11:00 AM, Tuesday, October 6, 1998 at Oak Hill Cemetery, officiated by Jerry Pool. Arrangements under the direction of Mills Funeral Home, McAlester.