ADA -- Services for Lillian Sealy of Pontotoc, were at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 11, 2006, at Smith-Phillips Funeral Home in Ada with the Rev. Osborn Roberts officiating. Interment followed at Seeley-Blue Cemetery.
Mrs. Sealy died on Friday, April 7, 2006, in Ada at the age of 85. She was born Oct. 8, 1920, in Pontotoc to Jackson and Lula Belle Lewis Levi.
She married Milton James Sealy on Dec. 25, 1947. She was preceded in death by her husband; a son, Melvin Sealy; a daughter, Juanita Thomas; her parents; a brother, Andruss Hamilton; two sisters, Flora Reed and Nora Beth Greenwood; and four grandchildren.
A resident of the Pontotoc area all her life, she attended school there and was a member of Pennington Methodist Church. She was a homemaker, active in the Methodist Women's Society and Senior Citizens activities.
She is survived by a son, Edison Sealy, Ada; four daughters, Nadine Lewis, Ardmore, Suzanne Russell and her husband, Charles, Ada, Shirley McElroy and her husband, James, Austin, Texas, and Frances Kay Solomon, Sulphur; a brother, Able Levi, Pontotoc; 18 grandchildren; 33 great-grandchildren; and 14 great-great-grandchildren.
Bearers were Jimmy Lewis, Kenneth Lewis Jr., James McElroy Jr., Billy Russell, David Lewis and Dustin H. Lewis. Honorary bearers are James McElroy, Wilson Dale Parker, Marvin Lee Sealy, Jimmy Lewis Jr., Billy James Lee, Robert Russell Lee and Charley Russell.
Smith-Philips Funeral Home directed services.
Published in The Daily Ardmoreite, (Ardmore, OK) - Wednesday, April 12, 2006
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