Graveside services for Wilma “Gheene” Heavilin age 85 of Enid, formerly of Beaver, OK will be 2 pm Monday at the Carmen City Cemetery Carmen, OK with Rev. Rick Main officiating. Arrangements are entrusted with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
Gheene was born September 20, 1925 near Dacoma, OK to Moss and Mabel Cope Heavilin and passed away October 29, 2010 in St Mary’s Medical Center.
She attended school at Dacoma and Lone Star. She moved to Alva at an early age and went to work for Southwestern Bell Telephone Co. as an operator. She moved to Carmen to live with her sister Rosie Newlin, while there she worked for awhile at a café. Later moving back to Alva where she resumed working as a telephone operator for Southwestern Bell. She worked in Perryton, TX, Liberal, KS, retiring from AT&T Telephone Co at Hutchinson, KS. She moved to Beaver, OK. She found peace and contentment there and was happy to be close to church home the 1st Christian Church of Beaver.
She cared so very much for her beloved Peke dogs, Bubba and Sissy who she took of joy in being with and watching.
Gheene became ill and was in the process of moving to Enid with her niece Dixie and her beloved niece Stacie Rose.
Gheene is survived by her nieces Timmie and husband Bill Coss of Joplin, MO, Dixie Brooks of Enid, great nieces and nephews Joe and his family, Marty and family, Mike and family, and Stacie Rose.
She was preceded in death by infant son Keven Lee, parents, sister Rosie Newlin, two brothers Earnest (Pete) and Roy Lewis Heavilin.