Obits of Richmond, Frances Kathrine Lucas - Latimer County, Oklahoma
 
Submitted by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>    04 Nov 2007
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Richmond, Frances Kathrine Lucas

Frances Kathrine Lucas Richmond departed this life Saturday, Nov. 4, 
2006, in Arlington.

Memorial service: 11 a.m. Thursday in Wade Family Funeral Home 
Chapel, 4140 W. Pioneer Parkway, Arlington, with Dr. Charles R. 
Womack officiating. Interment: will be in Texas. A marker will be 
placed in the Lucas family plot in Centerpoint Cemetery in Wilburton, 
Okla.

Memorials: In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made in Frances' name 
to Baptist Homes for Children, or a charity of choice.

Frances Kathrine Lucas Richmond was born Feb. 9, 1934, in Oklahoma 
City. She and her husband moved to Arlington in September 2006 to be 
near their children. She was the oldest of seven children born to 
John David and Fannie Irene Johnston Lucas. She made her profession 
of faith in Jesus Christ as a child and lived her Christian life with 
faith and poise. Frances graduated from Wilburton High School in 
Wilburton, Okla., in 1951. She married her high school sweetheart, 
Joe Paul Richmond, on Oct. 7, 1951. To this union were born one son 
and two daughters. Frances was the wife of a bi-vocational Baptist 
minister. She carried that title with grace and dignity. Frances 
worked as an administrative assistant for various organizations. She 
loved working for the International Mission Board of the Southern 
Baptist Convention, located in Richmond, Va. Frances and her husband 
participated in three short-term mission trips overseas. Frances was 
a member of First Baptist Church of Bethany, Okla., where she was 
active in Woman's Missionary Union and taught a women's Sunday school 
class.

She was preceded in death by her parents; and her brothers, Tommy and 
Charles Lucas.

Survivors: Her husband of Arlington; children, Joe David Richmond of 
Dallas, Paula Kay Honeycutt and husband, Ben F., of Frisco and Martha 
Fay Kidwell of Arlington; grandchildren, Mary Sanchez and husband, 
Joe, Joe Kidwell and wife, Jessica, and Michelle Kidwell, all of 
Arlington; great-grandson, Joseph Paul Sanchez of Arlington; sisters, 
Betty LeFlore and husband, Rommie, of Vian, Okla., LaDawn Jones and 
husband, Paul L., of Fort Gibson, Okla., and Helen Caldwell and 
husband, Cody, of Tahlequah, Okla.; brother, David Lucas and wife, 
Janice, of Tuskahoma, Okla.; two aunts; and a host of cousins and 
friends.

Published in the Star-Telegram on 11/8/2006.
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