Ola Mae Tompkins

© The Purcell Register

June 30, 2005

Submitted by: Mary Anneler

Ola Mae Tompkins

Funeral services for Ola Mae Tompkins, 90, of Lexington were held June 28, 2005 at Wilson-Little Funeral Home Chapel with Vaden Morgan officiating and Jim Catlege as the eulogist. Interment was at Lexington Cemetery under the direction of Wilson-Little Funeral Home.

Mrs. Tompkins died June 25, 2005 at the Noble Health Care Center.

She was born Feb. 21, 1915 in Pottawatomie County near Tribbey, one of five children of Clark Stanley and Mattie Milded Smith. She began school at Red Oak, then her family moved to McClain County where she attended the Stealey School.

In 1932, she married Oran Tompkins, whom she had met in grade school. The couple became the parents of five children and owned and operated a farm in the Corbett community.

After moving back and forth several times from the country to Lexington, they finally sold the farm and made Lexington their home.

Mrs. Tompkins was a member of the Westside Church of Christ in Lexington, the McClain County Home Demonstration Club and the Lexington Senior Citizens Center.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Oran Tompkins in 1991; one son-in-law, Troy Davey; two brothers, Howard and Roy; one sister, Lorene Standridge and one granddaughter, Pamela Rasmussen.

Survivors include three daughters, Oneita Collins and her husband, Horace, and Linda Davey, all of Lexington and Lajauna Catlege and her husband, Jim, of Oklahoma City; two sons, Travis Tompkins and his wife, Betty, of Noble and Oran Leon "Curley" Tompkins and his wife, Lydia, of Lexington; one brother, Clark Stanley of New Mexico; 11 grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren and 13 great-great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were David and Tony Tompkins, Jimmy and Randy Catlege, Frank Stone and Scott Osborne.

Honorary pallbearers were Mrs. Tompkin’s grandchildren and great-grandchildren.