Obituaries for November 13, 2008

Eletha Lena Price
Services for Eletha Lena Price will be held at 10 a.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008, at First Baptist Church in Helena with Pastor Dale Cummins officiating. Burial will be at Chapel Hill Memorial Gardens, 8801 N.W. Expressway, Oklahoma City, at 3:30 p.m. with Rev. Jim McNabb officiating with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc. of Helena.

Online condolences may be shared at www.lanmanmemorials.com.

Eletha Lena Price was born to Jim and Myrtle (Harris) Rupe on Sept. 29, 1925, in Antlers. She was the oldest of seven children. She married Grant Parker and moved to Oklahoma City. Later she married Ausbon Price. She was blessed with four children.

She was a homemaker until the kids were school age.
At this time she took those skills and worked as a housekeeper for a private family. After several years she went to work for Western Electric. She worked there until she left for health reasons, to take care of herself. In 1981 she moved to Hominy to be near her daughter, Mary. In 1992 she moved to Mustang to be near her other daughter, Linda. In 1999 she moved to the Great Plains Care Center in Helena to be close to her daughters. Her hobbies were reading and studying the Bible and enjoying her family. On Nov. 10, 2008, Eletha was carried to glory on the wings of Angels.

She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, three brothers, one son and one grandson.
She is survived by two daughters, Linda Johnston and Mary Jackson of Helena; one son, Tony Price of Oklahoma City; five grandchildren and 11 great-grandchildren; two brothers, Floyd Rupe of Helena and Bill Rupe of Sonora, Calif.; and one sister, Oretha Langley of Mustang. She was loved by a host of other family members and friends.

Memorials may be made to the New Covenant Fellowship, through the funeral home.

Lance Wayne Williamson
Funeral services for Lance Wayne Williamson, 27, were held Wednesday at The Bridge Assembly of God with burial in the Yukon Cemetery. Services were under direction of McNeil’s Mustang Funeral Service.
Mr. Williamson died Sunday west of Hobart.

He was born June 1, 1981, in Oklahoma City. He grew up in Yukon and was a 2000 graduate of Mustang High School. He obtained an associates degree in criminal justice from Redlands Community College. He had worked as a correctional officer for the Canadian County Sheriff’s Department until April when he became a correctional officer for the Oklahoma Department of Corrections at the Granite facility. He was a longtime member of The Bridge Assembly of God.

He is survived by his parents, Howard and Renae Williamson of Yukon; and maternal grandparents, Walter and Wanda Selvey of Oklahoma City.

Timothy Lee Ennis
Graveside services for Timothy Lee Ennis, 55, were held Tuesday in the Mustang Cemetery under direction of McNeil’s Mustang Funeral Service.

Mr. Ennis died Friday in Meeker. He was born July 28, 1953, in Galesburg, Ill. He grew up in Galesburg and came to Mustang in 1978. He worked in construction until retirement.

He is survived by a son, Thomas Ennis of Moore; and his mother, Barbara Ennis of Wellston.

Clarence J. Moody
Graveside services for Clarence J. Moody, 80, of Mustang, will be held at 10 a.m. today in the Mustang Cemetery. Services are under direction of Advantage Funeral Service-South Chapel of Oklahoma City.

Mr. Moody died Monday in Yukon. He was born Dec. 11, 1927, in Bethany. He was a Korean War veteran, serving in the Army. He retired from civil service at Tinker Air Force Base.

He is survived by his children, Bryan Moody of Yukon and Marilyn Keenan of Columbia, Mo.; a sister, Helen Hamilton of Bixby; three grandchildren and one great-grandson.

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