Services for Dickie Richard Hendrix, 80, of Ada are 10:00 a.m. Monday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Revs. Jerry Wells and John Haynes will officiate. Burial will follow at Swan Hill Cemetery.
Mr. Hendrix died Thursday, February 12, 2015 at a local hospital. He was born June 8, 1934 near Wewoka to Oran and Etta Blanch Wright Hendrix. He attended Fittstown and Stonewall schools and graduated from Stonewall High School. He received a Bachelor’s degree and a Master’s of Education from East Central University, and a Master’s of Special Education from the University of Oklahoma.
He married Rosa Lee Snow in 1959. Mr. Hendrix was a coach of basketball, baseball and football and a school teacher. He taught at Randlett, Moore, Davis, the Oklahoma School for the Deaf and retired from Pickett-Center School. He taught for 25 years, and later served on the board of the Stonewall-McLish Education Foundation for over five years. Mr. Hendrix was also a rancher and a member of the Ada First Baptist Church. He also served in the U. S. Navy.
Survivors include his wife, Rosa Lee, of the home; two sons, Randy Hendrix and wife Tresa and Michael Hendrix and wife Angela, all of Tulsa; four grandchildren, Meagan Faust, and Bailey, Kyle and Jason Hendrix; and two sisters, Phyllis Thomas of Lexington and June Rushing of Kennewick, WA.
He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, Glen Hendrix.
Bearers will be the Jerry Wells Sunday School Class members, Buck Cozad, Bill Gentry, Wendell Gurley, Vernon Robinson, James Mouser and Verdo Hooker, and also Mick Cristelli.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.
Criswell Funeral Home, Ada
