| Daily Oklahoman, The
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
July 4, 2009
More than 2,000 mourners gathered Friday at St. John Missionary
Baptist Church in Oklahoma City to “celebrate the homegoing” of
four family members killed in a multi-vehicle pileup last week
on the Will Rogers Turnpike in northeast Oklahoma. Services were
for Matthew Oral Hooks, his wife, Earlene Hooks, and two of
their sons, Antonio Hooks and Matthew “Dione” Hooks.
On Sunday, friends and
relatives of the Hooks family gathered at a home on NE 19 to
start making funeral arrangements, but they were not ready to
talk about the crash that killed four relatives.
The Hooks family, two parents and two sons, were headed to
Missouri to visit Ronnie Hooks for what was supposed to be a
celebration on Sunday.
"They were on their way to see me in St. Louis," Hooks said. "I
was to be ordained as an elder in the Church of God in Christ."
Instead, Hooks and his surviving brothers are arranging to bury
their loved ones. Hooks said his father, Oral, was semi-retired
and his mother, Earlene, was a housewife. His brother Dione
worked as a laborer and Antonio Hooks was a veteran who was
disabled, he said.
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Compiled, transcribed and submitted by Marti Graham, Oklahoma County, OKGenWeb Coordinator,
September 2009. Information
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