Services for Jalean McGaugh, 97, of Ada are 10:00 a.m. Saturday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Harold Ware will officiate. Burial will follow at Rosedale Cemetery.
Mrs. McGaugh passed away Tuesday, January 26, 2016 at a local nursing home. She was born August 23, 1918 in Bebee to Ben and Mae Glover Crow. She was born a twin. She grew up in Wewoka and graduated from Wewoka High School in 1936 and also graduated from Hills Business College in Oklahoma City.
She married Lonnie Lester McGaugh on January 15, 1937. He preceded her in death June 8, 2011. They were married 74 years. She and her family moved to Ada in 1962. Mrs. McGaugh was a homemaker and had also worked for McBride Clinic as the office manager and later for Carl D. Osborn, M. D., retiring in 1993. Mrs. McGaugh had many interests: gardening, flowers and most of all her family. She was of the Baptist faith.
Survivors include two sons, Jerry McGaugh of McAlester and Jack McGaugh and his wife Lea Ann of Flint, MI; four grandchildren, Kevin McGaugh, Ada, Mike Christopher, Frisco, TX, Stacy McGaugh, Cleveland, OH and Eric McGaugh of East Lansing, MI; eight great-grandchildren; and her twin sister, Nadean Cluck of Wewoka.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; and a twin sister, Nadean Cluck.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
