REPOST OF MISSING FEBRUARY 2001 POSTS

Nowata Star
126 E. Cherokee St.
Nowata, OK 74048
February 14, 2001
Permission for archiving obituaries given by Phillip Reid, Publisher

Funeral services for Vada Bricker Padgett, 73, of Petal, Mississippi, who died Tuesday, February 6, 2001 at her home were held Saturday, February 10 at Hulett-Winstead Funeral Home in Hattiesburg, Mississippi with the Reverend Wendall Frazier officiating. Burial followed at Hillcrest Cemetery in Petal, Mississippi.

Vada was born in Bristow on January 9, 1928, to Percy M. and Bernice P. Bricker. She was reared in Delaware and attended school in Childers and Delaware. She received her teaching certificate from Oklahoma University at Norman. Her first teaching job was at Millican School in Northeast Nowata County. Later she taught at schools in Americas, Georgia and Midland, Texas and retired from teaching after 36 years at the Hattiesburg School Systems.

She and Billy Gene Padgett were married on December 26, 1947 at Nowata.

Mrs. Padgett is survived by her husband. Billy Padgett of the home; a son, DeWayne B. Padgett of Dalton, Georgia and a daughter; Jo Deb Harrin of Petal, Mississippi; six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Percy and Bernice Bricker of Nowata; two aunts, Clella Epperson and Thelma Williamson.

Friends desiring may make Memorial Contributions to: The Shriners Hospital or The American Cancer Society.