Published 7-14-10

The funeral for Leola Pearl Rhodes will be 10 a.m. Friday, July 16, 2010, at First Christian Church, Alva. The Rev. Paul Bates will officiate. Burial will be in Alva Municipal Cemetery. Arrangements are by Wharton Funeral Chapel, Alva. Visitation with the family will be 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the Funeral Home.

Leola Pearl, daughter of Leah (Rodgers) and Andrew Jackson Holt, was born Jan. 26, 1918, in Carmen, Okla. She passed away at Beadles Nursing Home on Tuesday, July 13, 2010, at the age of 92 years, 5 months and 17 days.

She attended Alva school system, where she graduated from high school.

On Sept. 20, 1938, she was married to Raymond Walter Rhodes in Cherokee, Okla. To their marriage Roger and Andrew were born.

After their marriage they lived and farmed in the Hardtner, Kan., area, then moved to Alva, where they operated their own mechanic shop and gas station. In 1961, they purchased Alva Body and Fender, and in 1969, they started Rhodes Auto Salvage, where she was bookkeeper for 48 years.

She was a member of Barnes Street Church of Christ.

She was preceded in death by her parents; an infant sister; two sisters and their husbands, Ethel and John Lakely and Velma and Harry Rhodes; two brothers and their wives, Clifford and Pauline Holt and Alfred and Lucille Holt; and two brothers-in-law, Rosco Rhodes and Leonard Spencer.

Leola is survived by two sons and their wives, Roger and Gloria and Andrew and Donna, all of Alva; six grandchildren and their spouses, Colette and Charles Hayden of Alva, Christine and Derrick Harris of Enid, Randall and Lari Rhodes of Alva, Lisa Melton of Alva, Tammie and Brian Gaddy of Alva, Matthew and Lindsey Rhodes of Norman; 11 great-grandchildren, Roger and Charles Hayden, Devan and Jordon Harris, Rayden, Ryland and Rhett Rhodes, Constance and Jacquelyn Melton and Landry and Lakin Gaddy; three sisters, Freda Rhodes, Verda Murrow and Hazel Spencer; two sisters-in-law, Bernetta Warehime and Lula Belle Watkins; a number of nieces, nephews and other relatives and friends.

Contributions may be made in her memory to Barnes Street Church of Christ.

Condolences may by made online at http://www.whartonfuneralchapel.com/.
(Submitted by family)

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