Beckham CO. OK - Obit for Donnie Pinkston

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   Funeral  services for Donnie Pinkston will be conducted Firday at 2:00
   p.m.  from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. Jaason
   Dirks  officiating.  Interment  will  follow in the Red Hill Cemetery,
   Hammon, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of the Martin
   Funeral Home of Elk City.
   Donald  Lee Pinkston was born June 6, 1938 in the Herring Community to
   Thomas  S. and Lorene Thomas Pinkston and died October 30, 2001 at the
   age  of  63. He attended Herring School and then graduated from Hammon
   High  School  and  then  continued  his  educaation  at  Central State
   University  in  Edmond.  Donnie  lived  in  several  places including,
   Hammon,  Woodward,  Enid,  Seiling, Sayre and had been in Elk City for
   the last 12 years. His working career was mainly in convenience stores
   and  had  worked at Atwood's for the 4 1/2 years. Donnie served in the
   Air  National Guard and was an avid guitarist and fiddler where he was
   active  in  the  Far  West  Fiddlers.  He was preceded in death by his
   father.
   Survivors  include  two daughters, Janet Haskins and her husband, Tony
   of  Woodward, OK and Sandy atwood of Elk City; five grandchildren; one
   great  grandchild;  his  mother, Lorene Pinkston of Hamm9on; a special
   friend,  Joyce  Wayne  of Elk City; two sisters, Loretta Sunderland of
   Woodward  and  Evel6yn  Marshall  of Shawnee, and two brothers, Melvin
   Pinkston of Elk City and Eddie Pinkston of Hammon.