In Loving Memory Of
Gwendolyn "Sue"
Cochran
Gwendolyn "Sue" Cochran, of Pauls Valley was born April
17, 1945 in Wynnewood, Oklahoma at the Robberson-Shirley Clinic to Lee
Bob and Alice Simmons.
She passed away April 16, 2008 at Pauls Valley, Oklahoma at the age of
63 years.
She attended school at McCarty Country School 6 miles east of Elmore
City where her father would take her to school on horse back as well as
pick her up in the afternoon. In 1963 she graduated from the Elmore City
High School.
On August 22, 1964 Gwendolyn Sue Simmons married Fred E. Cochran in
Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. For 40 years she enjoyed her work at the Hilltop
School at the Southern Oklahoma Resource Center (SORC) and retired
December 1, 2007. She attended the First Christian Church in Pauls
Valley and has made the Elmore City, Wynnewood and Pauls Valley area her
home all of her life.
Sue was well known for wearing her bright colored jewelry and clothing.
She loved to "garage-sale", to walk, shop and to read; as well as
attending the Friday night singings in Elmore City; and has always loved
'Betty Boop'; but above of all she loved her grandson, Treston.
She was preceded in death by her parents; as well as two sisters,
Imogene Brook and Geneva Pool.
Surviving family include her husband, Fred Cochran of the home; their
daughter, Paula and her husband, Tim Williams; her grandson, Treston
Williams, all of Pauls Valley; two brothers, Bobby Simmons and his wife,
Phyllis, of Shawnee and Freddie Simmons and his wife, Mary Lou, of
Elmore City; and a host of nieces and nephews.
Sue will always be with us through each smile you see.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, April 19, 2008 at 2:00 pm at
Stufflebean Chapel of Remembrance. Interment will be at Whitebead
Cemetery under the direction of Stufflebean-Coffey Funeral Home.
