Services for Alma Nell Wofford, 76, Lula, are 10:00 A.M. Thursday at the Criswell Chapel, Revs. Glenn Russell and Joe Nemecek officiating. Burial follows at the Allen Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:00 – 8:00 PM Wednesday at Criswell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Wofford died on Sunday, September 20, 2009, at a local hospital. She was born June 6, 1933, at Lone Oak in Coal County to Buck and Elizabeth Woods Sweat. She attended Lula schools and graduated from Lula High School. She lived in Pampa, Texas, from 1957 – 1965 before moving back to Lula. She was a homemaker and also a member of Allen First Baptist Church. She was a very active member in the Lula community. She and her sister Marcine Johnston were instrumental in the development of the Lula Volunteer Fire Department, Lula Day, and in establishing a rural water district in order to obtain rural water for the Lula community.
She married Clyde Wofford on April 5, 1952 in Fort Smith, Arkansas.
Survivors include her husband, Clyde Wofford, of the home; a son, Jack Wofford, Lula; a daughter, Melinda Rolen and her husband Johnny, Fittstown; three grandchildren, René Savage and her husband Carl; and John Rolen; one great grandson, Jakob Savage; and numerous nieces, nephews and cousins.
Bearers are nephews, Don Berkemeyer, Charles Teel, Zack Munday, Sable Harden Jr., Darrell Lackey and Nathan Teel. Honorary bearers are Ferrell Baird, Stewart Ward, Dr. Lauren Patton, H. C. Spain, Donnie Johnson, Kevin Flowers, Dodson Brown, Freeland Colbert, Jearl Knighten, Jake Williams, Dillon Kirkland, Malcolm Casey, and Bill Sluder.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the Stonewall-McLish Education Foundation, c/o Stonewall Schools, 600 Highschool, Stonewall, OK 74871.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
