ROY SAVERS

JACKSON, Mo. -- Funeral for Roy L. Savers of Muskogee, Okla., was held Jan. 10 at Black's Funeral Home in Eufaula, Okla. The Rev. Robert Dibell officiated. Burial was in Greenlawn Cemetery in Checotah, Okla., with military rites by Eufaula Lake VFW Post 8798.

Savers, 88, died Sunday, Jan. 7, 2001.

He was born April 11, 1912, at Jackson, son of John and Emma Lowes Savers. He and Bernice Keller were married Sept. 22, 1946, at Jackson.

Savers was a 1931 graduate of Jackson High School. He served with the U.S. Army during World War II in the European Theater.

He retired in 1976 as city collector at Jackson and moved to Lake Eufaula. He was instrumental in pioneering Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Eufaula. He served as an elder at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Jackson.

Savers was active in establishing Rural Water District No. 8. He was a member of Trinity Lutheran Church in McAlester, Okla., American Legion, VFW Post 8798, and was a member of an Optimist club.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Barbara White of Eufaula; and a granddaughter.

He was preceded in death by a brother and a sister.