Services for Carrole Sue Billingsley, 87, of Ada are 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, July 12, 2022 at Criswell Funeral Home, Rev. Wayne Graves will officiate. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery. Visitation will be from 5:00-7:00 p.m. Monday, July 11 at Criswell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Billingsley passed away July 8, 2022 in Ada. She was born in Tupelo, OK, July 19, 1934 to Sherman and Geneva Scott Drennan.
She attended Eubanks grade school and graduated from Tupelo High School in 1952. She married Gordon E. Parnell June 19, 1952 in Ada. To their union two daughters were born, Dorthy Parnell Jacobs and Vickie Parnell Harrison. She later married Thomas Billingsley on December 24, 1983. She was a seamstress for Wrangler and also worked at the Stonewall malt shop.
Survivors are her two daughters, Dorthy Jacobs and husband James, of Sasakwa and Vickie Harrison, of Ada; one sister, Barbara Howard, of Ada; one niece, Jerri Lynn Howard, of Ada; two grandchildren, Amanda Parker and husband Kurtis, of Davis and Garrick Harrison and wife Tara, of Ada; and four great grandchildren, Bailey Jacobs, Morgan Parker, Isabella Harrison and Eli Harrison.
She was preceded in death by her husband Thomas Billingsley in 1985.
Casket bearers are Wayne Graves, Tino Galvan, Bailey Jacobs, Kurtis Parker, Garry Harrison and Wes Eidson.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
