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Lillie Kathryn Kelley was born March 30, 1948, in Olustee, OK, to Lloyd and Joy (Jones) Crelia. She died on Friday, February 28, 2025, at Mercy Hospital in Ardmore, OK, at the age of 76.
Lillie loved to wake up to her morning coffee and watch the news. She had a passion for painting and enjoyed working outside in her yard and planting flowers. She retired from the Love County Sheriff's Department, where she had worked as the administrator and had written several grants to help the county obtain funding for the jail operations.
Lillie came from a large family and was preceded in death by her parents; five brothers, Rayburn Crelia, Lyndon Crelia, Eddy Crelia, Tommy Crelia and Billy Moore; and a sister, Peggy Taylor.
Left to cherish Lillie's memory are her children, Tracy Powell of the home and Croley Leon Loyd of Durant, OK; nine grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; sister, Polly Phillips of Ardmore, OK; nieces, Melissa Jones and Kim Killion; nephews, Kevin Burkhart, Rodney Hartman, Ronnie Paul Phillips, River J. Tate, Casey Crelia, Cody Crelia, Josh Crelia and Kelly Black Crelia; and special friends, Linda Nelson and Angelina Kemper, both of Marietta, OK.
No services are currently scheduled. Cremation services are under the care of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home in Marietta.
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