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Wilma Gheene Heavilin
© Enid News and Eagle
10-30-2010
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre


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W. Gheene HEAVILIN

Carmen Cemetery


September 20, 1925 - October 29, 2010

Graveside services for Wilma “Gheene” Heavilin, age 85, of Enid, formerly of Beaver, OK, will be 2 p.m. Monday at the Carmen City Cemetery Carmen, OK, with Rev. Rick Main officiating. Arrangements are entrusted with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

Gheene was born September 20, 1925, near Dacoma, OK, to Moss and Mabel Cope Heavilin and passed away October 29, 2010, in St. Mary’s Regional Medical Center. She attended school at Dacoma and Lone Star. She moved to Alva at an early age and went to work for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. as an operator. She moved to Carmen to live with her sister, Rosie Newlin; while there she worked for awhile at a café, later moving back to Alva where she resumed working as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell. She worked in Perryton, TX, and Liberal, KS, retiring from AT&T Telephone Co. at Hutchinson, KS. She moved to Beaver, OK. She found peace and contentment there and was happy to be close to church home, 1st Christian Church of Beaver.

She attended school at Dacoma and Lone Star. She moved to Alva at an early age and went to work for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. as an operator. She moved to Carmen to live with her sister, Rosie Newlin; while there she worked for awhile at a café, later moving back to Alva where she resumed working as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell. She worked in Perryton, TX, and Liberal, KS, retiring from AT&T Telephone Co. at Hutchinson, KS. She moved to Beaver, OK. She found peace and contentment there and was happy to be close to church home, 1st Christian Church of Beaver. She cared so very much for her beloved Peke dogs, Bubba and Sissy, who she took of joy in being with and watching. Gheene became ill and was in the process of moving to Enid with her niece, Dixie, and her beloved niece, Stacie Rose.

Gheene is survived by her nieces, Timmie and husband Bill Coss of Joplin, MO, Dixie Brooks of Enid; great nieces and nephews Joe and his family, Marty and family, Mike and family, and Stacie Rose.

She was preceded in death by infant son Keven Lee, parents, sister Rosie Newlin, and two brothers Earnest (Pete) and Roy Lewis Heavilin.

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