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Winnie G.

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Jones

Jan 4, 1940 — Feb 16, 2015

Obituary

Funeral service for Winnie G. Jones, 75, Lawton, will be 2:00 p.m. Friday, February 20, 2015, in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Loyd Ashenfelter officiating. Mrs. Jones died Monday, February 16, 2015, at the home owned by her family since 1946. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. She was born January 4, 1940 in Shamrock, Texas, to Jim and Dorthy Gibbins. She was the sixth of eight children and the family moved to Lawton in 1945. In 1960 she packed her bags and moved to California where she attended night classes and earned her high school diploma. She later attended classes and earned her medical associate degree. In 1976 she returned to Lawton for a short time and began working for Vickers which later became Total Petroleum. In 1981 she moved to Oklahoma City where she worked as a district manager for Total. During that time she remarried her first love, Denton Jones. In 1985 she moved to Tulsa where she worked as a supervisor for Total. She moved back to Oklahoma City in 1986 and retired from Total in November of 1988 and soon moved to Loco, Oklahoma. In 1987 she and Denton took guardianship of Misty VanEtten and were able to adopt Misty in 1992. The family returned to Lawton in March of 1997 and Winnie took over driving her brother's taxi cab. In 2011 she welcomed her first grandchild and her second two years later She is survived by her husband, of the home; a daughter and son in law, Misty Jones and Shawn Isom, Lawton; two grandchildren, Remi Clarissa Isom and Noam Patrick Isom; a sister, Odie Goeller, Marlow; two brothers, Elmer Gibbins, San Antonio, TX and Wayne Gibbins, Lawton; 18 nieces and nephews. Her parents, two sisters, Laura Gibbins and Peggy Allan, and two brothers, Monroe and Clarence Gibbins, preceded her in death.

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