Age 93, Lawton - Graveside service will be 2:00 PM Friday at Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko with Dr. William F. Watkins officiating. Mrs. Powell died Wednesday in a local hospital. Burial will be under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born May 6, 1916 in Gracemont, Oklahoma to William Lee Venable and Myrtle Candes Harrison Venable. When she was a year old, the family moved from White Bread to "The Flat" north of Gracemont. Thelma was baptized at the age of nine at Spring Creek Baptist Church. In 1927, the family moved to the Spring Creek Farm, moving to the Verden farm in 1935. Thelma attended school at Bald Knob and Star graduating from Gracemont High School in 1935. The following year she attended Anadarko Business College and then worked at the Anadarko Chamber of Commerce until she met Charles Theo Powell of Elk City, Oklahoma, at the First Baptist Church of Anadarko, Oklahoma. They married December 14, 1939 in Anadarko and moved to Elk City where she became the secretary for the First Baptist Church of Elk City. In 1946, they moved to Carnegie, Oklahoma and then to Oklahoma City in 1954, where they raised their children. Thelma wrote fondly of her brothers and sisters and her life on her parents' farms. She enjoyed homemaking and hobbies of sewing, genealogy, gardening and service activities at Britton Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, where Theo and Thelma were members. In 2006, Thelma moved to Lawton to be near the watchful care of her daughter during her illness. Survivors include daughters and spouses, Janell Louise and Roy Beaver, Groveland, Florida and Melba and Daymond McGaughey, Lawton, a son, Charles Emmitt Powell, Arlington, Texas, a sister, Lena Minnie Venable Talkington, Dallas, Texas, a brother, Earl Clarence Venable, Verden, 7 grand children, 14 great grand children, 7 second great grand children, 6 third great grand children and numerous nieces and nephews. Thelma was preceded in death by her husband of 47 years, Charles Theo Powell, her parents, two brothers, Ray Caswell Venable and Wayne Allen Venable and four sisters, Mary Elizabeth Venable McClure, Anna Fay Venable Carr, Charlie Mae Venable and Willie Lee Venable Blue. Memorial contributions may be made to Britton Baptist Church, 1141 W. Britton Road, Oklahoma City, OK 73114-1790