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Bryan County, Oklahoma

Highland Park Cemetery
Durant, Oklahoma


Deceased Name: Naomi Elnora Pamplin Cross

© Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Naomi Elnora Pamplin Cross

A service will be held at 2:00 p.m. Friday at First Christian Church for Naomi Elnora Cross, 82, Durant, who died at her home on Monday, March 25, 2013.

Rev. Jim Shroyer, Rev. B. J. Tapley and Jimmy Stegall will officiate the service.

The daughter of L. L. and Myrtle Pamplin, she was born in Bennington, Oklahoma. She married Raphen Cross in May, 1948 in Denison, Texas.

Naomi was a lifelong resident of Bryan County and graduated from Bennington High School in 1947. After graduating high school, she married and settled in Durant with her husband.

Her son, Ronald Raphen Cross, was born in 1953. During her early career, she worked at Engles Family Clinic for 15 years before she moved with her family to Madill, Oklahoma where she opened her own business, Cross Realty.

Together with her husband, she founded and ran Raphen Cross Wholesale Company in Durant, selling candy and other products to retailers in Bryan and Marshall counties. In 1970 they purchased Stephenson Wholesale Company in Madill and later purchased Indian Nation Wholesale Company in Atoka. In 1983 both companies were merged into one distribution center in Durant. The company founded by Mr. and Mrs. Cross has become one of the largest convenience store wholesale distributors in the United States.

Naomi was one of the founding members of Durant's chapter of Business and Professional Women {B&PW}.

Her hobbies were reading, gardening and spending time with family. One of the greatest joys in her life was being a grandmother to her three grandchildren.

After moving to Durant she was a member of the First Christian Church, but later attended and became a member of the First Presbyterian Church to attend church with her grandchildren.

Naomi was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, her son, brother, Leon Pamplin, and sisters, Lois Nichols and Anna Mae Thompson.

She is survived by her grandsons, Gregory and Bradley Cross of Durant, granddaughter, Shawna Cross Dunbar of Aurora, Colorado, and daughter in law, Tammy Cross of Durant. She is also survived by sisters, Nona Lee Craig of Luray, Virginia and Delia Alene Jones of Springfield, Missouri, and one brother, Kenneth Pamplin of Oklahoma City, and special caregiver, Cleta Gudgel, along with numerous nieces and nephews.

Family hour will be from 7:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Thursday at the funeral home in Durant.

Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with Frank Cross, Steve Roper, Walter Brearly, Johnny Thompson, Jerry Wheatley, Craig Engles, Corey Cooper and Richard Anderson serving as pallbearers.

In lieu of floweres, memorials may be sent to New Life House, 1323 N. 8th Ave, Durant, Oklahoma 74701.

Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home is handling the arrangements.

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