Services for Merle C. Stick, 70, of Ada, are 2:00 p.m.Monday at the Chickasaw Community Center, Rev. Don Jacob will officiate. Burial will follow at Steedman Cemetery. A Wake Service will be 7:00 p.m. Sunday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel.
Mr. Stick died Thursday, October 2, 2014 at a Pauls Valley hospital. He was born March 4, 1944 in Talihina, Oklahoma to Arthur W. Stick and Lydia Mae Walker Kilcrease. He attended Allen schools.
Mr. Stick was a laborer/mechanic at Service Chevrolet in Ada and he volunteered with the Chickasaw Nation Senior Citizen Site for several years. He was a longtime member of Mitchell Memorial United Methodist Church in Ada.
Survivors include three daughters, Donna Iti Tupa-Cravatt and her husband Larry, Tina A. Stick and companion, John “Base” Miller, and Joan Jones and her husband Rob, all of Ada; a son, Merle Stick, Jr. and wife Debra of Ada; two brothers, Lloyd Kilcrease and Roman Kilcrease, Jr. both of Ada; three sisters, Rosetta Worcester and Madelyn Huffman, both of Ada, and Maxine Reyes of Oklahoma City; 13 grandchildren, Aaron B. Dill and wife Lacee of Chandler, IN, and Monty E. Stick and wife Levina, Sara Brown, Durell Jones, Patrick Jones, Terrance Jones, Ryan Dill, Tara Brown, Stephanie Stick, Jacy Stick, Ty Starrin, Shawn Starrin, and Shane Starrin, all of Ada; 23 great grandchildren; 2 great great grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his father, Arthur Stick; his mother, Lydia Mae Kilcrease; step-father, Roman Kilcrease, Sr.; and a son, Calvin James Stick.
Bearers will be Monty Stick, Durell Jones, Patrick Jones, Terrance Jones, Ryan Dill and Kevin Stick, Sr.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
