Funeral services for Louella Ann Rawls will be held on Thursday, July 13th, 2017 at 11:00 AM at Reed-Culver Chapel with Chaplain Bill Holcomb officiating. Visitation will be held on Wednesday, July 12th, 2017 from noon until 6:00 PM at Reed-Culver Chapel. Interment will follow at Ft. Gibson National Cemetery at 1:00 PM on the 13th. Online condolences for her family may be left at www.reedculver.com.
Pallbearers for Louella include Brandon Holt, Nicholas Holt, Justin McCillister, Cody Skye Martin, Eric Byrd, and Christopher Byrd.
Louella Ann Hallmark Rawls was born on October 1st, 1939 in Tahlequah, OK, the daughter of Allen and Birdie (Bark) Hallmark. She grew up in a household with four sisters and one brother, Pauline, Helen, Juanita, Mary and her twin brother, Marion. Louella graduated from Muskogee High School and began her career as a farmwife and full time mother. Louella married Charlie franklin Rawls in Miami, OK, this union lasted until his passing in 1983. She loved being out in the country, raising vegetable gardens and sewing on her many projects. She was the proud mother of two daughters and one son, Kimmy, Kathy, and Robert. Everyone knew they were going to be fed well at Grandma’s house, she made a wicked ham dinner complete with mashed potatoes, biscuits, green beans and any dessert she made to go with it! She had a soft spot in her heart for animals and adored Scottish Terriers and feeding every stray cat that wondered onto her doorstep. She liked watching a thriller on the Sy-Fy channel or reading a good book to relax. She was easy going, with a quiet sense of humor. The best day was any day spent in the company of the children and grandchildren she adored. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Oktaha. The Lord called this good and faithful servant home from her labors on July 8th, 2017 in Tahlequah, OK. She will be greatly missed and loved always.
Louella is preceded in death by her mother, father, husband, three sisters, Pauline, Juanita, and Mary and one brother Marion, and her grandparents, Diana Hallmark, Robert Bark, and Polly Glass.
Those left to cherish her memory include her children, Kimmy Holt and husband Randall of Warner, OK, Kathy Walker and companion Marion Menning of Braggs, OK, and Robert Walker and wife Terry of Tahlequah, OK. There is one sister, Helen Emerson of Tahlequah, OK, and nine adored grandchildren, Heather Straley and husband Josh, Brandon Holt and Nicholas Holt both of Warner, OK, Christopher Byrd and wife Sheila of Tahlequah, Wesley Byrd of Portland, OR, and Eric Byrd of Braggs, OK, Justin McCillister of Tahlequah, OK, Tiara Tavera and Lucio of Tahlequah, OK, and Kelly Walker and companion Todd Kerns of Park Hill, OK, and many cousins, nieces, nephews, and a host of friends and loved ones.
SHARE OBITUARY
v.1.8.18