Funeral services for Joyce "Cookie" Antoinette McCollister will be held at Holy Family Catholic Church noon July 6, 2022 with Father Phil Seeton officiating. There will also be a rosary held at Becker-Rabon Funeral Home on July 5 at 6:30pm. Burial will follow at Highland Cemetery.

Cookie, 79, of Lawton Oklahoma, passed peacefully to her heavenly home surrounded by her loving family on Thursday, June 30 in Weatherford, Texas. Cookie was born to Jeci and Olivia Ramos on January 9, 1943 in Lawton, Oklahoma. She married Cedric Leaton "Mac" McCollister on October 9, 1960 in an intimate home wedding. During their marriage they lived in Lawton and Ardmore, Oklahoma and Lake Jackson, Texas. They divorced April 16, 1970 and Cookie moved back to Lawton. She worked as a carhop at Dante's Pizza Village, a banquet waitress at the Lawtonian Hotel and finally landed her career job as a Clerk Typist with the State of Oklahoma Department of Human Services, Child Welfare Division. She retired from the State after 27 years of service. After retirement, Cookie became a stay-at-home Grandmother and Great grandmother. It was during this time that she renewed her faith in the Catholic Church and became closer to God.

Cookie is survived by her brothers: Jeci "Donnie" Ramos, Jr and wife Therese, Rudy and wife Kathy, and Stephen Ray Ramos, Sr.; 2 children: son, Rick McCollister and wife Cindy; daughter Shelli and husband Jed Fox; 5 grandchildren: Jamison McCollister and wife Tammy, Levi McCollister and wife Krista, Derek McCollister, Jeremiah Fox, and Austen Peppers; and 6 great grandchildren: Deizel McCollister, Hannah Hoffman, James Davidson, Addison Cearnal, Nora McCollister, and Harper McCollister and many nieces, nephews and cousins. Cookie was also especially close to nieces Terri Ramos-Smith, Vicki Ramos and wife Dawn Bourland, and sisterin-law Doreen Kamer and husband Kenneth who took such good care of Cookie and helped make her last three years as happy and comfortable as possible.

Cookie is preceded in death by her mother and father, her sister Deborah Ann Ramos, grandson Robert J. Peppers and great granddaughter Angel McCollister.