Calvin Frank Connell

© Published in Enid, OK. News

May 14, 2006

Submitted by Jo Aguirre

The funeral for Calvin Frank Connell, 69, of Dover, will be 10 a.m. Monday at Dover Christian Church. The Rev. Fred Jones will officiate. Burial will be in Dover Cemetery. Arrangements are by Sanders Funeral Service Inc., Kingfisher.

He was born Sept. 14, 1936, in Okemah to Frank and Bessie Connell and died Thursday, May 11, 2006, at his home.

He lived in Dover for many years and was a truck driver for Farrar Construction for 30 years. He married Jackie, Oct. 1, 1970, in Bristow.

Surviving are his wife, Jackie, of the home; three daughters, Jana Butts and Diann Hoover, both of Dover, and Connie Hawkins of Loyal; two sons, Doug Connell of Perry and Cal Connell of Stockton, Calif.; two brothers, Jim Connell of Dover and Bill Connel of Yale; four sisters, Lucil Mattack of Chishium, Minn., Bernice Chasteen and Erma Stuckey, both of Okmulgee, and Carolen Metcalf of Broken Arrow; nine grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by one brother and a grandchild.

Memorials may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, heart division, OMRF, Development Dept., 825 NE 13th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73104.