Online Obituaries - Evans & Miller Funeral Homes in Poteau and Pocola, Oklahoma
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Billie Louise Finton
Billie Louise Finton departed this life at the age of 86 on Monday, April 25 in Granbury, Texas and has been received into the loving arms of Jesus Christ, our Savior. She was born Willie Louise Tucker on October 9, 1924 to William and Janie Hobson Tucker in Cameron, Oklahoma. She was preceded in death by her parents, her brother, Travis, her sister, Ocie Myers and her husband, Earle Finton.
The family will receive friends at Evans & Miller on Friday, April 29 from 7:00 – 8:30 pm. Graveside services will be at 10:30 am on Saturday, April 30. 2011 at Witteville Cemetery, Poteau,OK with Rev. Bryan Fields officiating.
Louise attended Cameron schools and worked for a short time in a wartime airplane factory in Kansas. In January 1945 she married Jerry V. Camp in Florida where he was stationed with the U.S. Navy. She also worked at Poteau Food Market and as an election official for many years. She enjoyed her extended family, her weeks camping at Kerr Lake and her many nights of card playing with friends. She spent most of her life in Poteau and in 2009 moved to Texas to be near family.
She leaves behind her son, Larry Camp and wife, Sylvia, of Granbury, Texas; her granddaughters, Christi McCraw and husband, Chris, of McKinney, Texas and Amber Wegner and husband, Wade, of Dallas, Texas; her great-grandchildren, Macie and Mattson McCraw and Laney and Ava Wegner; sisters, Edith Bomar and Erma Sullivant; brothers, Marvin Tucker, Harrell Tucker, Herbert Tucker and Bill Tucker; and very special friend, Wanda Lawrence.
Memorials may be made to Samaritans Purse, P.O. Box 3000, Boone, NC 28607-3000.
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