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The funeral for Ada Juanita Sheffield, 87, of Fairview, will be 10:30 AM Wednesday at Fairview Funeral Home Inc. Chapel. The Rev. Richert Redinger will officiate. Burial will be in Rusk Cemetery. Visitation will be 9 AM to 5 PM today at the funeral home.
She was born October 14, 1919, in Waynoka to Harley Roy and Bertha Irene Clifton Brockelman and died Sunday, August 12, 2007, at Seiling Nursing Home Center, Seiling.
She attended school in Woodward. She moved with her parents to Fairview and cleaned for Grace Hallren.
She married Walter Roland Sheffield September 5, 1936, in Seiling. They worked for Asphalts Manufacturing Company where she was a seamstress.
He joined the Navy during World War I I and she went to Ames, Iowa. She later went to Boston until he went overseas. The family moved to Enid in 1948 and onto Fairview in 1961. She was a member of the Seventh Day Church of God in Fairview and sang in the choir. She managed a small nursing home in Fairview. They returned to Enid in 1971 and then returned to Chester in 1985. They raised Shetland ponies. She was a member of the American Legion Auxiliary and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union Auxiliary.
Surviving are one son, Gary Roland Sheffield of Ponca City; one daughter, Connie Hicks of Chester; two brothers, H. B. Brockelman and Larry Dean Brockelman, both of Bay Town, Texas; two sisters, Audry Spencer of Cheyenne, Wyoming, and Mona Lee Slater of Spearman, Texas; six grandchildren; eight great – grandchildren; and 13 great – great – grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter, two daughters, two brothers and three sisters.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, Alzheimer's Division.
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