Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Don Gene Eubanks
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 5/15/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
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Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
APRIL 24, 2002

DON GENE EUBANKS
     Tahlequah--Funeral services for Don Eubanks, 64, of Tahlequah, will be held 
at 10 a.m. Friday, April 26, 2002, in the Green Country Funeral Home Chapel with 
Pastor Cleatus Johns [Jones] officiating.  

Pastors David Walker and David White will be assisting.  Interment will follow 
in the Fort Gibson National Cemetery under the direction of Green Country 
Funeral Home.
     
Pallbearers will be Doyle Gower, Gray Dewayne Shankle, Brent Gower, Brad 
Eubanks, Brandon Eubanks, Bobby Hayes, Joey Gritts, Mitchell Kelley and Bryan 
Womack.  Honorary pallbearers will be Rep. Jim Wilson, Greg Henry, Leonard 
Walker, Troy Walker, Danny Walker and Tuson Westmoreland.

     Don Eubanks was born May 10, 1937, the son of Ella Katherine Johnson and 
Clyde Monroe Eubanks in Lawton.  

He departed this life on April 21, 2002, in Tulsa.

     Don grew up in Missouri along the Mississippi River before attending 
college at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah.  On Sept. 10, 1963, Don 
retired from the U.S. Army with an honorable discharge.  

He had been the administrator and song leader for the Eternal 
Jubilee Church of Park Hill.  

He was a member of the American Legion Post No. 15 and Disabled American 
Veterans.

     Don loved to play the guitar and sing.  He also enjoyed writing {his} own 
music.  Don liked to visit and travel and he loved his grandchildren.  He also 
enjoyed politics and once ran for District 4 State Representative.

     Don was preceded in death by his parents and three brothers, Bill, 
Lawerence and Sherman Eubanks.

     He is survived by Rosie Walker Eubanks, his wife of 42 years, whom he 
married on Oct. 5, 1959.  He is also survived by seven children, Linda Hayes and 
husband Jimmy, Teresa Gower and husband Claude, Gary Ryals and wife Rozella, 
Phoebe Gene Shankle and husband George, Shelia Stacy and husband Vernon, all of 
Tahlequah; Michel Eubanks and wife Linda of Tulsa and Don Allen Eubanks and wife 
Velva, also of Tahlequah; two brothers, Cletis T. Eubanks of Choctaw and Allen 
Peck of Marlow; two 
sisters,  Cleta Peck of Marlow and Clyde Ellen of Oklahoma City; many 
grandchildren and a host of friends and family members.
     
There will be a family meal at the Come and Dine Church in Tahlequah