Funeral services for Lula Mae Gilbert were held on Tuesday, March 5, 2002 at First Baptist Church of Lahoma with Pastor Steve Campbell officiating. Burila will be in Roselawn Cemetery at Okeene with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home of Okeene. Lula Mae Gilbert was born October 2, 1919 to George L. and Vaide Mae Lester in Winona, Mississippi. Lula Mae had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure two and a half years ago, and due to recent complications, she passed away Saturday, March 2, 2002 at St. Mary's Regional Medical Center in Enid. Lula Mae had numerous jobs throughout her lifetime from picking cotton to waiting tables at Kampus Korner. However, the most enjoyable job she ever had was babysitting and raising many, many children. She welcomed each and every one of them into her family. She and John T. Gilbert were married in Big Creek, Mississippi and together they had six children. She had lived in Greenville, Mississippi, moving to Okeene in 1975 and then to Lahoma in 1988. She attended First Baptist Church of Lahoma. Lula Mae is survived by three daughters: Geraldine Hanes and husband, Jim of Gulfport, Mississippi, Mary Helen Rogers, Martha Johnson and husband, David of Lahoma and one son, Johnny Gilbert and wife, Mary Jo of Elyria, Ohio; fourteen grandchildren; nineteen great grandchildren; six great-great grandchildren; three brothers, Bobby Gene Lester, G. L. Lester, Jr, Gerald Lester, all of Mississippi; five sisters, Kathleen Long, Margaret Simpson, Carolyn Alexender, and Judy Bennett all of Mississippi and Evelyn Dowdle of San Angelo, Texas. She is preceded in death by her parents, her daughter and son, Glenda and Ronnie Gilbert, one grandson, Ryan Gilbert, and one son-in-law, Charlie Creek. We were truly blessed to have had such a wonderful, loving, and caring mother and grandmother in our lives. Her spirit captured everyone who knew her. Although we will desperately miss her, we will find comfort in knowing she has gone to be the Lord and she is finally reunited with her two children. As printed in "The OKEENE RECORD", Thursday, March 7, 2002, Okeene, Blaine County, Oklahoma.