Christeen (Clowers) & Owen R Pritchard
Tombstone Photo
Boggy Depot Cemetery
Atoka, Atoka County, Oklahoma
© Jan McKee
OWEN R. PRITCHARD OBITUARY Rewritten With Permission © Chickasha Express Star
Funeral arrangements for Owen R. Pritchard, 92, of Chickasha are pending. Graveside services for Owen R. Pritchard, 92, of Chickasha, formerly of Wapanucka, Oklahoma, were held at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 3, 2007, in the Boggy Depot Cemetery in Wapanucka, Oklahoma, with Bill Pendergrass officiating.Owen Pritchard was born June 3, 1914, in Wapanucka, Oklahoma the son of Edward and Maggie (Carnes) Pritchard. He died March 1, 2007, in Chickasha.Owen grew up in the Wapanucka area, and attended the rural schools there. He and Christeen Clowers were married on January 19, 1937, in Atoka, Oklahoma. They made their home in Wapanucka, where they farmed and raised their six children until they moved to Chickasha in 1953.Owen was employed by the Sate of Oklahoma until his retirement in 1976.All of his family loved and cherished him so much. He will be deeply missed. Our Lord has received another angel.Owen was preceded in death by both parents: Edward and Maggie Pritchard; wife, Christeen Pritchard; one brother, Forest Pritchard; one sister, Pocahontas Gann; one son, Robert Pritchard; granddaughter, Tammy Bowen; and two great-grandchildren: Ashley Pritchard and Nicholas Perks.Survivors include two sons and daughters-in-law: Gerald and Marietta Pritchard, of Tulsa; and David and Doris Pritchard, of Chickasha; three daughters and sons-in-law: Anita and Frank Ely, of Seminole, Oklahoma; Joyce and Jim McDonald, of Elgin, Oklahoma; Kay and Charles Winburn, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; sixteen grandchildren and twenty-nine great-grandchildren.Services were under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home.
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