Wendell Lemmings
Wendell Clifton Lemmings passed away at his home on Thursday, March 25, 2021, at the age of 77 years.
Wendell was the son of Guye and India (Stratton) Lemmings, born on July 28, 1943 in Seminole, Oklahoma. He was brought up in the Strothers area and attended Strothers and Varnum schools. He attended Oklahoma State Barber College in Oklahoma City in 1964-65. He married Nellie Coats on January 15, 1966, in St. Louis, Oklahoma, and they were blessed with four children:
Christopher, Sandra, Angela, and Pamela.
Wendell worked as a barber at the Tonkawa Barber shop in Wewoka for many years, and for twenty of those years at the Oak Ridge Home in Wewoka. Some of his favorite things were going to flea markets and antique shows, and watching Thunder basketball and OU Sooner football. He enjoyed wood working and making small birdhouses and other novelties. He loved music in general, especially Country music, and loved to play guitar and sing. What he loved best was music and dancing, so he and Nellie danced six nights a week and practiced on the seventh.
Wendell is preceded in death by his parents, Guye and India Lemmings.
He is survived by his wife of fifty-five years, Nellie Lemmings, of the home; four children, Christopher Dewayne Lemmings (Cheryle) of LaPorte, Texas, Sandra Diane Nason of Wewoka, Angela Hill (Toby) of Rockwall, Texas, and Pamela Gandy (Greg) of Wewoka; fourteen grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren; one sister, June Houck of Seminole; other family members and many friends.
Memorial services were held on Monday, March 29th , 1:30 p.m. at Fisher Funeral Home-Lillye Chapel, with Rev. Dan Factor officiating. www.fisherfh.net
