Thelma Nita (Thompson) King

Thelma Nita (Thompson) King, age 81 and a resident of Konawa, Oklahoma passed away on Friday, January 13, 2012 Choctaw, Oklahoma. Funeral services are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Konawa under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home in Konawa.  Rev. Mona Fulks will officiate.  Burial will follow at Vamoosa Cemetery.  The grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Thelma was born on August 24, 1930 in El Reno, Oklahoma to Sam H. Thompson and Eva (Johnson) Thompson.  She married Fred King on February 5, 1952 in Tijuana, Mexico.  She moved back to Konawa in 1994, and she became a member of the Pentecostal Holiness Church in Konawa where she was a Sunday school teacher.  Thelma was a homemaker who loved cooking, crocheting, volunteering for the prayer phone ministry, and she loved flowers. She is survived by her husband, Fred King of the home; two sons, Lee and Sylvia King of Choctaw, Oklahoma, and Fred King, Jr. of Oklahoma City; one daughter, Karen M. Sims of Ada, Oklahoma; seven grandchildren, and eleven great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, Sam and Eva Thompson, two sons, Francis J.R. King and Mark Gregory King; four brothers, Jerdan, John, Kenneth, and Francis Henry Thompson; and one sister, Hazel Garret. Funeral Information: January 17, 2012, 11:00 AM Pentecostal Holiness Church of Konawa under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home located at 217 N. Broadway, Konawa, OK 74849