Obit for C Wayne posted by Ann Weber
Nov 30, 1940 - Feb 6, 2018

DAVIS FAMILY FUNERAL HOME
DEWEY, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)

Wayne Hawkins, 77, longtime Copan resident, died Tuesday in Copan. He will be dearly missed by all who knew him as a hardworking, family-loving and grandkid-spoiling guy who enjoyed hunting, fishing and simply watching God’s creatures.

Wayne was born the son of Jerry and Goldie (Steeley) Hawkins on November 30, 1940 in Bartlesville, OK. Growing up, he loved playing baseball oftentimes with the great Mickey Mantle. During those early years he worked in the family business Hilltop Grocery Store. His least favorite day was Saturdays when the chickens had to be butchered and iced down for sale.

Wayne graduated from College High in 1958. He went on to work at the Examiner-Enterprise and Cities Service before starting his 33-year career with National Zinc, retiring in 2001. As Wayne tells it, he met the love of his life Sharon Sanders at the Grace Epworth Methodist Church in Bartlesville, where on a wagon ride he gave her a big kiss and asked her for a date on Saturday night. The rest was history and they were united in marriage on February 5, 1960, in Bartlesville. They made their home in Bartlesville and Ochelata before moving the family to Copan to a house that had to be moved to the 4 mile road, its former foundation now sits under the Copan Dam. After that home flooded out the third time Wayne decided to build a beautiful home on higher ground nearby.

Wayne’s passions in life centered around family, hunting and fishing. He enjoyed quail and duck, as well as squirrel hunting. Wayne and Sharon loved to spend time together hunting for wild onions and taking care of grandbabies. He liked to spend one-on-one time with his grandchildren; each one of them had their own thing they would do together with him. Wayne gave all of them nicknames and on more than one occasion forgot their real name. In later years he enjoyed cooking and buying kitchen gadgets on QVC. He always fed the grandkids biscuits and gravy before school and cooked big pots of spaghetti for them before playing sports. Wayne loved his hummingbirds and had one particular bird that was really mean to the other birds visiting the porch, so Wayne took a shot at it but luckily missed. He enjoyed his cows and as it became harder for him to get out to look after them, Wayne brought them into the front yard so he could keep an eye on them.

Wayne is survived by his two sons, David Hawkins and Heather of Dewey, and Brent Hawkins and Shyla of Copan; one brother Harry Hawkins and Karen of Clinton, IL; seven grandchildren, Matt Hawkins and Samantha of Dewey, Shawn Hawkins and Jessi of Copan, Brady Hawkins of Dewey, Kylee Hawkins of Copan, Cole Hawkins of Bartlesville, Tel Hawkins of Copan, and Sydney Hawkins of Copan; six great grandchildren, Gage, Reed, Finleigh, Ally, Lily and Cahner.

He is preceded in death by, his loving wife Sharon, father Jerry Hawkins and Katy, Mother Goldie Hardesty and Mugs, Uncle and Aunt Johnnie and Iris Steeley and three brothers.

Visitation will be held on Saturday from 9-1, Sunday 12-5 and Monday 9-12. In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the New Life Wesleyan Church, PO Box 547, Copan, OK 74022.

Wayne’s family will receive friends at the Davis Family Funeral Home, 918-534-3030, 113 S. Osage (Hwy. 75), Dewey, on Sunday, February 11, from 2-4 p.m.

Funeral services will be held 2 p.m. on Monday, February 12, at the New Life Wesleyan Church in Copan.

Interment will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Carter Davis and the Davis Family Funeral Home.

Online condolences and remembrances may be shared with Wayne’s family at www.DavisFamilyFuneralHome.com.

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