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February 18, 2012

GERALDINE TUCKER-RUTHERFORD

The Ada News

Wewoka — GERALDINE TUCKER-RUTHERFORD

WEWOKA — Funeral service for Geraldine Tucker-Rutherford, 87,  was 2 p.m. Saturday Feb. 18, 2012,  at Stout-Phillips Funeral Home Chapel in Wewoka. Burial followed at Oakwood Cemetery in Wewoka.

Ms. Rutherford died Wednesday Feb. 15, 2012, at McAlester. She was born in Bagota, Texas, on May 4, 1924, to Eukley and Madge Tucker.

Her family moved to Wewoka where she grew up and attended Wewoka schools.  She was a graduate of Wewoka High School and later graduated from Byng Vo-Tech as a Licensed Practical  Nurse in 1975.  After obtaining her LPN license, Mrs. Rutherford began a career in nursing by working at Oakridge Nursing Center.

She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Wewoka.

On March 8, 1947, she married Warren Suge Rutherford in Stonewall The couple renewed their vows on Jan. 22, 2006.  

She was preceded in death by her parents, brothers Donald Joe Tucker and  Durwood Tucker, her husband Warren Rutherford, and  five sons Steven, Mark, Ernie, Warren and Bob.

Survivors include three daughters, two sons-in-law and companion, Janie and Roger Melton, Sheila and Jerry Latimer, and Donna Johnson and Mary Stoddard; a son and daughter-in-law, Stanley and Barbara Rutherford; daughters-in-law, Jeanine Rutherford, Singrid Rutherford, and Barbara Rutherford;  22 grandchildren, 29 great-grandchildren, 10 great-great-grandchildren: a brother Ted Tucker; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Bearers are Kenneth Johnson, Chris Johnson, Barry Tucker, Guy Tucker, Clint Griffin and Evan McGee.

Online condolences can be made at www.phillipsfuneralservice.com.

Stout-Phillips Funeral Home, Wewoka

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