Funeral services for Jewell Dean "Granny" McCormick, 88, of Keota, were held at 2 p.m. Friday at the Unity Baptist Church with Mr. Joe Avery officiating.
Burial was in Keota City Cemetery, under the direction of Mallory-Martin Funeral Home of Spiro.
Mrs. McCormick was born March 9, 1920, in Talihina, to John Samuel Bell and Mable (Ewer) Bell. She died Tuesday, Sept. 16, 2008, in Poteau.
Mrs. McCormick was a homemaker and a member of the Keota Church of Christ and enjoyed quilting.
Survivors include five daughters, Frances Watts and her husband, Ed, of Howe, Goldie Baker of San Anglo, Texas, Viola Hooper and her husband, Charles, of Spiro, Judy Marie Crabtree and her husband, James, of Sallisaw and Anna Mayflower and her husband, Doug Stout of Bokoshe; four sons, James Edgar McCormick and his wife, Judy, Sam Silven McCormick and his wife, Debbie and Tony Kent McCormick and his wife, Thelma, all of Keota and Jim Dale McCormick and his wife, Christa, of Poteau; two sisters, Vera Grace Medders of Talihina and Martha May Chapman of Shawnee; step-daughter, Ruth Daily and her husband, Jim, of Piedmont, S.C.; 32 grandchildren; 50 great-grandchildren; 10 great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, Marion Fitzgerald and Sam Edgar McCormick, one son, Ether Lane McCormick, two grandchildren, Gerald DeWayne Stephens and Dianna McCormick, three brothers and two sisters.
Pallbearers are James McCormick, Jim McCormick, Sam McCormick, Tony McCormick, Roger Stephens, Mike McCormick, Wendall McCormick, Calvin McCormick, Jason McCormick and C.S.
