This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wynell, Vickers, Farris, Hodge, Brown, Locke, Witcher, Maloy, Adams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GeV.2ACEB/1751 Message Board Post: Bartlesville Examiner-Enterprise Bartlesville, OK August 12, 2003 LUCY W. FARRIS VICKERS-FARRIS-Lucy Wynell 78, died subsequent to a stroke August 10, 2003 at Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville, Oklahoma. She was retired from the Tulsa Public School system, having served as a Cafeteria Manager until 1983. Until struggling with strokes in latter life she was an active member of St. Mark's United Methodist Church and Tulsa Baptist Temple and led a spirit filled life of service and dedication to the Lord. Wynell was born March 14, 1925 in Cullman, Alabama to John William (Burck) and Josie Lee Hodge. In 1943 she met and married Bill Vickers in Rome, Georgia. They traveled across the United States through his employment. They ultimately made their home in Tulsa raising 3 children until his death in 1975. She married Clyde Farris in 1983 and they enjoyed their retirement years by traveling and enjoying gospel music until his death in 1996. In 1999 she moved to Bartlesville to be closer to her daughter. Wynell will be greatly missed by her family, who loved her dearly, and her friends. She is survived by her son Bill Vickers and his wife Connie of Cortez, Colorado; her daughter Gail Brown and her husband Keith of Bartlesville; daughter-in-law Sue Locke and husband Bob of Owasso; a sister Jeanette Witcher of Cullman, Alabama; 5 grandchildren, Jennifer Maloy and husband Brandon, Michelle Adams, Keith Vickers and wife Kelly, Kevin Brown, and Lauren Brown; 4 great-grandchildren, Beau and Zac Ellingford, Hope Adams, and Colton Vickers; and a number of nieces, nephews, and cousins. She was preceded in death by her parents, 4 brothers and 3 sisters, husbands Bill Vickers and Clyde Farris, son, Chrles W. Vickers, and grandson, Edward Keith Brown. The family will receive visitors at Walker-Brown Funeral Home on Tuesday, 6-8 P.M. Services will be held Wednesday at 11:00 A.M. at Walker-Brown Funeral Home Chapel, with interment following at 3:00 P.M. at Floral Haven Cemetery in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.