Mrs Lorene Geneva Glory <I>Pettigrew</I> Greenwood

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Mrs Lorene Geneva Glory Pettigrew Greenwood

Birth
Oklahoma, USA
Death
18 Jun 2007 (aged 83)
Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Fittstown, Pontotoc County, Oklahoma, USA Add to Map
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FITTSTOWN Services for Lorene Geneva Glory Pettigrew, 83, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, June 22, 2007, at Criswell Funeral Home with Rev. Jerry Studebaker officating. Interment will be at Hickory Hill Cemetery. A wake service is scheduled from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Mrs. Greenwood died on Monday, June 18, 2007. She was born on Nov. 30, 1923, in Fairview community, southwest of Sulphur to Joe and Serena Fulsom Pettigrew.
She attended school at Fairview and Valley View and graduated from Davis High School, lettering in basketball and baseball and receiving several sports medals. She won a scholarship to East Central University in basketball. She played the tuba in the high school band and sang in the girls' sextet and glee club. For four years she was a high school cheerleader and was involved in oratorical contests.
She and Buster Keaton Greenwood were married on Sept. 11, 1947.
Lorene was active in the Chickasaw community where she served in the legislature for the Chickasaw Tribe for seven years. She was a teacher's aide in the McLish school system and was honored in 2001 by the McLish Alumni Association at the biennial reunion. She was active in the Booster Club at Oklahoma School for the Deaf in Sulphur for her granddaughter, Rebecca.
For many years, Lorene was active in the Hickory Hill Baptist Church and was saved at the age of 13 during Vaction Bible School at Sandy Baptist Church between Sulphur and Davis. She was baptized the old-fashioned way in a creek.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Buster, her son, Joe Wayne Greenwood; a daughter-in-law, Vicki, her parents, sisters, Lucille Looney and Caroline Stribling; and sister-in-law, Monette.
Survivors include a daughter, Juhree Greenwood, son, Buster Greenwood Jr, granddaughter, Rebecca Greenwood, daughter-in-law, Pat Greenwood, all of Fittstown; a sister, Irene Digby, Davis, and Andy Imotichey, Long Beach, Califll, whom Lorene and Buster raised as their as their third son, nephews, Dean Digby and wife, Barbara, Ronnie Digby and wife, Dixie and Tony Looney; nieces, Beverly Reynen and husband, Bob, and Rhonda McCann and husband, Ron. Beareers will be Vernon Robinson, George Old Crow, Kendall Old Crow, Dean Digby, Ronnie Digby and James Laackey. H
Honoray bearers are John Stevenson, Terry George, Gov. Bill Anoatubby and Gene Durant.

From the Daily Ardmoreite
FITTSTOWN Services for Lorene Geneva Glory Pettigrew, 83, will be at 10 a.m. Friday, June 22, 2007, at Criswell Funeral Home with Rev. Jerry Studebaker officating. Interment will be at Hickory Hill Cemetery. A wake service is scheduled from 6 to 8 tonight at the funeral home.
Mrs. Greenwood died on Monday, June 18, 2007. She was born on Nov. 30, 1923, in Fairview community, southwest of Sulphur to Joe and Serena Fulsom Pettigrew.
She attended school at Fairview and Valley View and graduated from Davis High School, lettering in basketball and baseball and receiving several sports medals. She won a scholarship to East Central University in basketball. She played the tuba in the high school band and sang in the girls' sextet and glee club. For four years she was a high school cheerleader and was involved in oratorical contests.
She and Buster Keaton Greenwood were married on Sept. 11, 1947.
Lorene was active in the Chickasaw community where she served in the legislature for the Chickasaw Tribe for seven years. She was a teacher's aide in the McLish school system and was honored in 2001 by the McLish Alumni Association at the biennial reunion. She was active in the Booster Club at Oklahoma School for the Deaf in Sulphur for her granddaughter, Rebecca.
For many years, Lorene was active in the Hickory Hill Baptist Church and was saved at the age of 13 during Vaction Bible School at Sandy Baptist Church between Sulphur and Davis. She was baptized the old-fashioned way in a creek.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Buster, her son, Joe Wayne Greenwood; a daughter-in-law, Vicki, her parents, sisters, Lucille Looney and Caroline Stribling; and sister-in-law, Monette.
Survivors include a daughter, Juhree Greenwood, son, Buster Greenwood Jr, granddaughter, Rebecca Greenwood, daughter-in-law, Pat Greenwood, all of Fittstown; a sister, Irene Digby, Davis, and Andy Imotichey, Long Beach, Califll, whom Lorene and Buster raised as their as their third son, nephews, Dean Digby and wife, Barbara, Ronnie Digby and wife, Dixie and Tony Looney; nieces, Beverly Reynen and husband, Bob, and Rhonda McCann and husband, Ron. Beareers will be Vernon Robinson, George Old Crow, Kendall Old Crow, Dean Digby, Ronnie Digby and James Laackey. H
Honoray bearers are John Stevenson, Terry George, Gov. Bill Anoatubby and Gene Durant.

From the Daily Ardmoreite


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