Celebration of life service for Shirley Jo Etter McLaughlin will be 2:30 P.M. Friday, October 20, 2017 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Tony Elkins, pastor of Abundant Life Church and Rev. Steve Mallow, pastor of Immanuel Baptist Church officiating.

Burial will follow in Fletcher Cemetery.

The family will greet friends from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Thursday at the funeral home.

Shirley Jo Etter McLaughlin age 81, of Idabel, Oklahoma went to be with Lord Tuesday, October 17, 2017 in Paris, TX

Shirley was born March 2, 1936 in Comanche County to William Emory Etter and Ella Elizabeth Seymour Etter.  She went to Comanche County rural schools:  Happy Hollow, West View, South View, Cedar Grove and Fletcher.

She had many jobs over the years, Sidney's Hamburgers, Lawton; Sonic Drive In, Lawton, Bellemead, TX, and  Fairbury, NE are just a few.  She cleaned houses and sewed for others.  She retired from American Airlines.

Shirley loved the holidays, Easter and Christmas the best.  She loved to decorate the home.  Beckey said she would play with the children and the neighborhood children and taught them "Red Light, Green Light; Kick the Can; Red Rover, and Annie Over".

One of LeAnn's memories was when Mom learned to ride a bike at Rush Springs when she was about 30.  One of Jimmy's many memories of his mother is her calling him and saying "Jimmy you are going to be mad at me."

The Etter family has been having a three day reunion at Fort Cobb Lake since 1986.   Shirley loved these reunions.

She is survived by seven children, LeAnn Kriz and husband, Carl, of Irving Texas, Jimmy McLaughlin, Rhonda Huffman, and Bobby McLaughlin of Idabel, and Beckey Watkins and husband, Jerry of Lawton and two sons raised by adopted parents who have been reunited with family, Larry Slinkard of Mena, Arkansas and Billy Radford of Lawton, seventeen grandchildren, thirty-two great grandchildren, and eleven great great grandchildren.  Also five sisters, Mildred Bartlett,  Garfield, AR, Madeline Harrell, Lowell, AR; Lucille Galloway, Fletcher, Margie Etter, Walters; one brother, Floyd Etter and wife, Pat, Fullerton, CA, one sister in law, Terry Etter of Fletcher and a host of nieces and nephews.

She is preceded in death by her parents, five sisters:  Wauneta Bartlett, Johnnie Lytle, Gerline Tilley, Pauline Goleman, and Billy Jean Etter; three brothers, Kenneth Etter, C W Etter, Homer Etter, and Jessie Etter, also three half brothers, Leslie, Reese, and Harold Etter.