Obit of Thomas, Elois - Oklahoma County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 17 Jul 2005 Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Tuttle Times 16 February 2005 ELOIS THOMAS Elois Thomas, age 82, of Oklahoma City, passed away Thursday, Feb. 10, 2005 at Deaconess Hospital in Oklahoma City. Elois Thomas was born March 5, 1922 in Newcastle. She was the youngest of seven children born to William Thomas Carl and Hattie (McGee) Carl. Elois grew up in Newcastle and graduated from Newcastle High School in 1940. After high school she attended one year of college at the University of Oklahoma. On July 8, 1942, she married her high school sweetheart, Jack Monroe Thomas. This past year they celebrated 62 years of marriage. After Elois and Jack got married, Jack spent three and one-half years in the U. S. Army during WWII. After the war was over he returned to Oklahoma in 1946, and they moved to Oklahoma City. In 1960, they opened their own business called "Jack M. Thomas Plumbing Co." where she was the bookkeeper and office manager. She was a member of the N. W. Baptist Church in OKC for 30 years and for the past 20 years has been a member of the First Baptist Church in Newcastle. Throughout her life she enjoyed traveling with Jack. They visited every state in the U.S., also traveling to Canada and Mexico. Her passions in life were shopping, talking on the telephone and reading her Bible. She was preceded in death by her parents, William and Hattie Carl; two brothers, T. W. and Jack Carl; and four sisters, Blanche Smith, Mary Lee Thomas, Dortha Harman and Elsie Whalen. Survivors include her husband, Jack, of the home in OKC; one daughter, Becky Pritchett and husband Peter of Bethany; two sisters-in-law, Pauline Carl Wilcox of McAlester, Okla, and Tootsie and Roy Dunning of Newcastle; two grandsons, Nathan Pritchett and wife Shelley of Tulsa and Matthew Pritchett of San Diego, Calif.; three great grandsons, Jack, Alex and Sam; and many nieces, nephews and other loving relatives. A graveside funeral service will be 2 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005 at Fairview Cemetery in Tuttle. Officiating will be Rev. Charles Elmore. Arrangements by Wilson-Little Funeral home in Newcastle. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Oklahoma County Archives: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/oklahoma/oklahoma.html