Willa Mae (Barrows) Whitworth Nickell

Enid Morning News

Jan. 4, 2006

Submitted by Jo Aguirre

Willa Mae (Barrows) Whitworth Nickell

Funeral services for Willa Mae (Whitworth) Nickell, 73, of Cherokee, will be 2 p.m. today, Jan. 4, 2006, in the Carmen Christian Church, Carmen. The Rev. Dennis Adair of the Seiling Christian Church will officiate and burial will follow in Carmen City Cemetery. Arrangements are by Wentworth Mortuary of Carmen.

Willa Mae was born Jan. 28, 1932, on the family farm near Aline, a daughter of Lawrence and Pauline Grove Barrows. She attended school in Aline and graduated from Carmen High School in 1950.

Willa Mae was united in marriage to Don Dean Whitworth on June 24, 1949, in First Christian Church, Van Buren, Ark. They were the parents of two sons, Larry and Sam. They made their home on the family farm south of Carmen. They farmed and also operated a dairy. On Dec. 11, 1971, Don was killed in an accident and Willa Mae was left to raise their sons. In January 1975, she married Ellis H. Nickell in Enid. They made their home in Cherokee where they enjoyed a good life until they became ill and were not able to care for themselves. Ellis went to a nursing home in Tulsa to be near his family and she remained in Cherokee where she departed this life on Jan. 1, 2006. She was 73 years, 11 months and 4 days of age.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Don Dean Whitworth; her father, Lawrence Barrows; father and mother-in-law, Harry and Fannie Whit-worth; and sister-in-law, Betty Lambert.

Survivors include her husband Ellis; two sons and their wives, Larry and Kathy Whitworth of Newkirk, and Sam and Debi Whitworth of Seiling; grandchildren, Kacey Lyn and Landon Waugh, Tyler Adam Whitworth, Mandi Donell and Russell Griffin, Aly Nicole and Brandon Fulbright; her mother, Pauline Barrows of Carmen; two sisters and their husbands, Winona and Eddie Bruner of Carmen, and Linda and Monty Shelite of Aline; one brother and his wife, Dale and Betty Barros of Mesa, Ariz.; and other relatives and many friends.

Memorials may be made to Hospice Circle of Love with Wentworth Mortuary acting as custodian.

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