Obit Cherokee Co. Archives for:
Name: Jimmie Washington
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Submitted by: Kay Hubbard Thompson
Email: katiewho@intellex.com 
Date: 4/08/2002
to the Cherokee Co., OK Archives site
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cherokee/cherokee.html
Bill Cook, Cherokee Co. Archivist, wcook14024@aol.com
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TAHLEQUAH DAILY PRESS
TAHLEQUAH, OK
JANUARY 2002

JIMMIE WASHINGTON
     Tahlequah--Funeral services for Jimmie Washington, 75, of Tahlequah, will 
be held at 1p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 2, 2002, at the Reed-Culver Chapel with the 
Rev. D.J. McCarter officiating.  Burial will follow at the Greenleaf Cemetery 
under the direction of Reed-Culver Funeral Home of Tahlequah.
     Pallbearers will be Mark Washington, Jimmie Washington, Marshall 
Washington, William Deckard, Spanky Thompson, and James Hooper.  Honorary 
pallbearers will be Rickey Deckard, Nathan Deckard, Ramen Washington and Darrel 
Studie.
     Jimmie was born on Feb. 13, 1926, at Cookson Hills, the son of Red and 
Jennie (Dick) Washington, and passed from this life on Dec. 30, 2001, at the 
Tahlequah City Hospital.
     He grew up in Cherokee County, attending Sellers School.  Jimmie was a 
labor worker in the nursery business and loved to fish and camp.
     Jimmie was preceded in death by his parents and two daughters, Melba 
Deckard and Linda Washington.  Among those he leaves behind are daughters Joyce 
(William) Deckard and Violet Washington of Tahlequah; sons David (Billie) 
Washington of Southwest City, Mo., J.W. Washington of Arizona and Hank (Sushi) 
Washington of Pegs; one sister, Beside Grasshopper of Tahlequah; and one 
brother, Sunday Washington, of Ohio; 14 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren