Obituary

Allen Cemetery
Pontotoc County, Oklahoma

Abbie Bell (Turney) Harrington

December 5, 1911 - November 24, 2014

© Criswell Funeral Home

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Services for Abbie Bell Turney Harrington, 102, of Allen are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Allen Church of Christ, Terry Janda will officiate. Burial will follow at the Allen Cemetery. Family and friends may call at the Allen Chapel from 4:00 p.m. Tuesday until service time.

Mrs. Harrington died Monday, November 24, 2014 at the Allen nursing home. She was born December 5, 1911 at Kiowa, Oklahoma to Peter Gid and Leona Mullins Turney. She lived in Pittsburg and Hughes counties all her life. She married William B. Harrington on January 3, 1931 in Holdenville. He preceded her in death November 29, 1988 in Ada. In her early married life during the depression, she worked in the fields hoeing corn and cotton while her husband plowed. Her young children played on a quilt at the end of the rows. Mrs. Harrington was a homemaker and would raise a garden and loved to work in her flower beds around the home. She was a wonderful cook and never complained about anything. She was a longtime active member of the Allen Church of Christ.

Survivors include four sons, Ottis Harrington and wife Marilyn, Oklahoma City, Otto Harrington and wife Imogene, Allen, Glenn Harrington and wife JoEtta, Allen, and David Harrington and wife Kathy, Allen; three daughters, Loretta Legg, Allen, Lois Meeks, Holdenville, and Ann Janda and husband Terry, Allen; 23 grandchildren; 38 great grandchildren; 30 great-great grandchildren; and four sisters, Beaulah Arnold, Allen, Marcell Cross, Decatur, TX, and Velma Cross and Mildred Eagle, both of Bakersfield, CA; a sister-in-law, Frances Turney, McAlester; and a son-in-law, Tommy McFerran and wife Sue of Allen.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; daughter, Elizabeth Charlene McFerran; two sons-in-law, Don Meeks and Phillip Legg; granddaughter’s husbands, Daniel Talamantes and Michael Heath; two grandsons, William Edward “Billy” Harrington and Tommy Charles McFerran; a great grandson, Daniel Job Sheaman; brothers, “Bill” Turney and wife Eva, Charlie Turney and wife Ruby, James Turney and wife Evelyn and Tommie Turney; sisters, Elizabeth “Lizzie” Dunn and husband Henry, and Lola Tackett and husband Esta; and brothers-in-law, Noel Arnold, Pete Eagle, Amos Cross and Lonzo Cross.

Bearers will be her grandsons.

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