McAlester

Services for Lois Ellen McAlester, 89, will be Wednesday, at 2 p.m. at First Baptist Church with the Rev. Steve Packer and Bishop Joseph Strickland officiating. Interment will be at Willow Oak Cemetery in Upshur County. Mrs. McAlester was born Dec. 6, 1927 in Bagwell, Texas. She died Sunday, June 5 in Waxahachie. She attended First Baptist Church of Pittsburg and was a member of Lydia Sunday School Class. She was a retired teacher and past president of the Camp County Teachers’ Association. She was also a former Pink Lady. Survivors include two sons, Timothy Lee McAlester and wife Kathy; Terry McAlester and wife Mary; six grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her husband, Shelby Lee McAlester, and parents Charley Gaston Strickland and Mary Elizabeth Perkins Strickland; a son, Ronald Drew McAlester; two brothers, Raymond Strickland and Gaston Strickland. Pallbearers were JoeMarsh, Phil Scudder, George Frost, Ash Brown, Lee Crane and Brett Coe. Online condolences may be left at www. ermansmithfuneralhome.net.