Washita Co., OK - Obits: Joe Kent
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Joe Kent, age 70 of Sentinel,  died Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006. Memorial services
were held Wednesday afternoon in the Sentinel Cemetery.

He was born on May 23, 1936 in Frederick, the son of Russell and Bernice
Kent.A 1953 graduate of Frederick High School, he played football for the
Bombers.In 1955 he married Linda Lea Wilcox, and they continued to live in
Frederick where he worked as a butcher in a local grocery store. From there he
moved to Elk City where he worked for Miracle Laboratories. They continued to
live there until 1973 when they moved to Sentinel and he began his career in
farming, raising wheat, cotton, alfalfa, cattle, sheep, goats, etc. Later,
after retiring, he raised pecan trees.

Preceding him in death, along with his parents, was a brother, William “Bill”
Kent.

Arrangements were under the direction of the Jack Loftiss Funeral Home of
Sentinel.

Survivors include daughters, Jolyna Abernathy and her husband, Randy, of
Cordell, Gina Hurley and her husband, Mike, of Irvine, Calif., Lisa Proffitt
and her husband, Monty, of Cordell; a brother, Charlie Kent of Frederick;
sisters, Mary Frances Miller of Glen Ellen, Calif., Virginia Sasser and her
husband, Eldon, of Sequim, Wash.; grandchildren, Amanda Conway of Weatherford,
Mason Proffitt of Weatherford, Carissa Williams of Edmond, Bobby Abernathy and
Kent Abernathy of Cordell; and great grandchildren, Hunter Newton and Kennan
Conway.