Funeral services for Donnie Pinkston will be conducted Firday at 2:00
p.m. from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Jaason
Dirks officiating. Interment will follow in the Red Hill Cemetery,
Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Martin
Funeral Home of Elk City.
Donald Lee Pinkston was born June 6, 1938 in the Herring Community to
Thomas S. and Lorene Thomas Pinkston and died October 30, 2001 at the
age of 63. He attended Herring School and then graduated from Hammon
High School and then continued his educaation at Central State
University in Edmond. Donnie lived in several places including,
Hammon, Woodward, Enid, Seiling, Sayre and had been in Elk City for
the last 12 years. His working career was mainly in convenience stores
and had worked at Atwood's for the 4 1/2 years. Donnie served in the
Air National Guard and was an avid guitarist and fiddler where he was
active in the Far West Fiddlers. He was preceded in death by his
father.
Survivors include two daughters, Janet Haskins and her husband, Tony
of Woodward, OK and Sandy atwood of Elk City; five grandchildren; one
great grandchild; his mother, Lorene Pinkston of Hamm9on; a special
friend, Joyce Wayne of Elk City; two sisters, Loretta Sunderland of
Woodward and Evel6yn Marshall of Shawnee, and two brothers, Melvin
Pinkston of Elk City and Eddie Pinkston of Hammon.