DeEtta, Curtis Ray & Kevin Leon Knight Obit

Printed in The Oklahoman, December 18, 1987; page 1

Murder Victims Mourned

Mother, Two Sons Buried
By Paul Shell - staff writer

Dozens of mourners huddled together Thursday morning on a windy, snow-covered, Oklahoma hilltop to bury a woman and her two sons killed Sunday in one of the state's worst mass murders.

Buried Thursday were DeEtta Knight, 26, and her children, Curtis,6, and Kevin, 22 months. All three were shot to death by husband Virgil Knight, who killed himself after the shootings.

Virgil Knight's former sister-in-law and her boyfriend were also shot to death and 4 year-old Shelly Knight, Virgil and DeEtta's daughter, was wounded.

A spokeswoman at South Community Hospital said Thursday Shelly appears to be improving and held up four fingers to nurses to indicate her age. The child survived a bullet that ripped through the left side of her brain.

Her two small brothers were buried together in an adult coffin beside while Gary Bohanon, Crossroads Cathedral associate pastor, tried to find words to comfort relatives, friends and playmates who turned their backs to a chilling plains wind cutting across the cemetery, and sobbed quietly.

"I've been asked so many time, 'If there is a God in heaven - why?' The answer is always the same, 'Because there is a mankind on earth,' " Bohanon said.

"Heaven is a place made for little children, I believe that with all my heart," he said.

Del City First Assembly of God Church, where DeEtta's father once served as a deacon, has established a fund to help the family with burial and medical expenses. The fund address is Post Office Box 15300, Del City, OK 73155.

Virgil Knight will be buried this morning in the town of Stonewall, southeast of Ada, where other Knight family relatives are buried.

Services for Knight's former sister-in-law. Carrie Knight, 23, and Allen Shayne Lockhart, 24, were held Wednesday at Bill Eisenhour Funeral Home.

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