Deceased Name: Vernon E. "Sonny Lloyd" McCarty
Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
VERNON MCCARTY
Services for Vernon E. "Sonny Lloyd" McCarty, 70, Tulsa, are 10 a.m. Thursday at Nick Reynolds Funeral Service at 19th and Sheridan in Tulsa, the Rev. Rick Matthews will officiate. A committal service will be 3 p.m. Thursday at Byrd's Prairie Cemetery in Tupelo.
Mr. McCarty died Monday, July 7, 2008, at a Tulsa hospital. He was born Nov. 11, 1937, at Jesse, Okla., to Don Gipson and Juanita McCarty.
He graduated from Tupelo High School and from Okmulgee Tech.
He married Ginger Margaret Price. He later married Bonnie Flohr on Sept. 3, 1994.
Mr. McCarty was the manager for Jones Academy Boarding School in Hartshorne from 1962 until 1984. Later, he was a safety officer for Bureau of Indian Affairs from 1984 until 1998. He was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include his wife, Bonnie McCarty, of the home; two sons, Russell McCarty, Tahlequah and Gary McCarty and wife Dorothy, Adamson, Okla.; one daughter, Tonya May, Tahlequah; a stepson, Keith Willbourn, Cleveland, Okla.; and a stepdaughter, Lisa Bunde, Cleveland, Okla.; 14 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his mother, Juanita McCarty Lloyd and stepfather, Ben Lloyd.
Honorary bearers are Max Quinn, Bill Latimer, Steve Chism and Paul Kessler.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
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