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Apache, Oklahoma March 2017 February 16, 1948 ~ March 5, 2017 APACHE Vidala Rose "Bushy" Attocknie Franklin, 69, Apache, went to her heavenly home on Sunday, March 5, 2017, with her loving family by her side. Funeral will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 8, 2017, at Comanche Community Center of Apache, with Edmond Tate Nevaquaya and Michael Burgess officiating. Burial will follow at Cache Creek KCA Cemetery, west of Apache, under direction of Comanche Nation Funeral Home. Wake service will be at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 7, 2017, at the community center in Apache. Vidala was born February 16, 1948, in Lawton, to Francis "Joe A" Sr. and Rosalie Poolaw Attocknie. She graduated from Capitol Hill High School in 1966, and went on to attend college at Haskell from 1966 to 1968 majoring in nursing. Her nursing career spanned from 1968 to 2003. She worked for Hillcrest Corp [Oklahoma City], Comanche County Memorial Hospital [Lawton], Grace Living Center [Chickasha], Nursefinders [Lawton], and Willow Park Health Care Center [Lawton]. In 2004, she went to work for the Comanche Nation Outreach Office in Anadarko, where she worked until her retirement in 2016. She was a proud member of the Comanche Nation, also of Kiowa Descent, proud Yahpuh tuhkah [Root Eater] Band member, Ten Bears descendant and Yellowfish descendant. She is survived by and mother to: LaVida David, Hah-Tee Delgado and wife Starr of Lawton, and Wuhyahkeh Delgado and companion Sky Bullock of Livingston, Texas; and grandmother to: Marty Joe, Maiya, Michelle, Nuh-Nuh Tsee, Sonja, Joaquin, Sean, Hunter, Rylan, Anhinga, Angel and Epimenia. She is also survived by her brothers: Randlett Attocknie, Richard Attocknie; and sister, Phyllis Attocknie. She was preceded in death by her parents: Francis "Joe A" and Rosalie Attocknie Sr.; sister, EsaJawea Attocknie; brother, Francis "Bubba" Attocknie Jr.; and a grandson, Hoonch "Bear" Delgado. Visitation will be from noon to 3 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. |