Enid News and Eagle August 23, 2005
The funeral for Anna Lucille Swann Sisk, 84, Enid,
formerly of Ponca City, will be 2 p.m. Thursday at St. Luke's Church of
the Nazarene, Ponca City. Gene Rahn will officiate. Burial will be in
Prairie Chapel Cemetery. The Rev. Roy Edwards will officiate.
Arrangements are by Grace Memorial Chapel, Ponca City. Visitation will
be 6:30 to 8 p.m. today at the memorial chapel.
She was born March 28, 1921, in Lakeside, Mo., to Ralph
and Sudie Belle Hague Fetters and died Saturday, Aug. 20, 2005, at
Integris Bass Baptist Health Center.
She attended school in Webb City, Mo., until 1930.
Following her mother's death, she moved with her sister to live with
their grandparents. She finished eighth grade at Hammers School near
Neosho, Mo..
She married Frank Swann Sept. 20, 1942, in Neosho. They
lived in Atlanta and many other places before moving to Ponca City in
August 1953. She returned to school, earning her G.E.D. and attended
classes at the vo-tech. She worked at Robert's Manufacturing Co. before
starting a career at Ponca City Hospital, where she was a secretary for
21 years, serving 10 years with the maintenance department. She retired
from St. Joseph Regional Medical Center in 1987. Her husband died April
13, 1979.
She later married John Sisk May 29, 1999, in Ponca City.
They lived in Enid. She was a member of St. Luke's Church of the
Nazarene, Ponca City, where she served as a substitute Sunday school
teacher and helped with vacation Bible school. She also was a volunteer
at Wheatheart Nutrition Center, delivering meals-on-wheals.
Surviving are her husband, John, of the home in Enid; two
daughters, Peggy Swann and Susan Dressen, both of Oklahoma City; two
stepsons, John E. Sisk and Richard Sisk, both of Guthrie; one
stepdaughter, Carol Siebert of Enid; a sister, Mary Mandeville of
Tumwater, Wash.; three grandchildren; six stepgrandchildren; one
great-granddaughter; and five stepgreat-grandchildren.
In addition to her first husband, she was preceded in
death by an infant son.
Memorials may be made to St. Luke's Church of the
Nazarene, 1715 E. Prospect, Ponca City, OK 74601.