This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hook, Seelke, Cryer Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9746 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 20 July 2006 MADILL, OK - Floyd Winston Hook, Sr., 87, of Willis, Oklahoma, passed away Monday, July 3, 2006 at Brookside Nursing Center in Madill, OK. He was born in Sharp to Charlie H. and Isabell (Seelke) Hook on Sept. 30, 1918. He married Eloice Cleo Cryer on Dec. 21, 1939 in Davilla. Mr. Hook was raised in Sharp and in 1953 moved to the Willis, OK area from Corpus Christi. He worked for the Northcutt Farms and Keeton Farms as a farmer and rancher for most of his life. Mr. Hook joined the U.S. Army in 1944 and served during World War II. He received overseas services bars, victory ribbon, distinguish unit badge, Army occupation ribbon Japan, Bronze Star and Phillippine Liberation ribbon. He served in the infantry as a rifleman and he was a squad leader and a master sergeant. He enjoyed fishing, hunting, raising game chickens, gardening, building bird houses and spending time with the grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents and one sister, Lorene Robinson. Survivors include his wife, Eloice Cleo Hook of Willis, OK; two sons, Billy Wayne Hook and wife Carol of Alvarado and Floyd Winston Hook, Jr. and wife Linda of Kingston, OK; two daughters, Barbara Lois Teeter and husband Fred of Kingston, OK and Sharon Rene Hudgins and husband Jack of Ft. Worth; 11 granchildren; 11 great-grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Pallbearers included Bud Lollis, Vent Lollis, Michael Ferguson, Caleb Polvadore, Cameron Keeton, Ronnie Hartin, Fred Teeter and Jack Hudgens. Honorary pallbearers were Audeen Jeffrey, Joe Williamson, Ray Markum, Joe Underhill, Wayne Hook and Johnny Underhill.