William Rock Jr.

May 11, 2002

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Services will be at 3 p.m. Sunday in Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Martin Road Chapel, 1505 Martin Road, with Larry Stone of Pullman Road Baptist Church officiating. Burial will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Toney Cemetery in Porum, Okla.

Mr. Rock was a heavy-equipment operator in the oil fields around the Texas and Oklahoma panhandles. He married Sue Hunter in 1958. He was a member of Pullman Road Baptist Church and served in the Army during the Korean War.

He was preceded in death by his wife in 1994; and a sister, Virginia Frost in 1998.

Survivors include two daughters, Karlea London and husband, Glen, of Amarillo and Kim Childress and husband, Wes, of Canadian; two sons, Keith Rock of Canadian and Ronnie Rock of Perryton; two brothers, Bob Rock of Woodward, Okla., and Hollace Rock of Paint Rock; three sisters, Ada Strutton of Guymon, Okla., Iva Cathy of Shipshewana, Ind., and Carolyn Limbocker of Perryton; and seven grandchildren.