LILLIAN DARLENE (SEXTON)HAMILTON PASSED AWAY AT HER HOME IN CALUMET, OKLAHOMA, ON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21ST,  2024, AT THE AGE OF 80 YEARS. DARLENE IS THE DAUGHTER OF LENNIS & LEILA MAE (GREEN) SEXTON, BORN ON
SEPTEMBER 26TH , 1944, IN HOLDENVILLE, OKLA. HER EARLY DAYS WERE SPENT IN SPAULDING, OKLA., THEN TO BYNG, OKLA., WHERE SHE FINISHED HER EDUCATION AND PLAYED BASKETBALL UNDER BERTHA FRANK TEAGUE. SHE MARRIED JACKIE L. HAMILTON AND REMAINED IN BYNG FOR A SHORT WHILE, EVENTUALLY SETTLING IN SEMINOLE, OKLA.

DARLENE WORKED FOR GULF STREAM AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY, RIVETING AIRPLANES. SHE TRANSFERRED TO SAVANNAH, GA., TO WORK FOR THEM UNTIL THEIR CLOSING.  SHE THEN HELD VARIOUS JOBS, DRIVING FORKLIFT, REMODELING HOUSES AND RVS, AND, IF NEEDED, WORKING ON HER OWN VEHICLES. SOME OF HER FAVORITE THINGS WERE HORSEBACK RIDING, SINGING, DANCING & PLAYING GUITAR, AND GARDENING, BUT HER FAVORITE THING WAS SPENDING TIME WITH HER FAMILY. SHE MOVED BACK TO KINGFISHER, OKLA. 12 YEARS AGO, AND RESIDED THERE UNTIL MOVING TO CALUMET, OKLA.

SHE IS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HER FATHER LENNIS, HER MOM & STEPDAD, LEILA & JAMES D. SEXTON, HER SISTER AND BROTHER-IN-LAW, VALENA & LARRY BATEMAN, A GRANDDAUGHTER, DANI TOWNSEND, TWO NEPHEWS, JASON D. SEXTON AND SHAWN SEXTON, AND NIECE, KIMBERLY BATEMAN CAMPBELL.

SHE IS SURVIVED BY FOUR CHILDREN: RANDY L. HAMILTON (KIM) OF DOUGLAS, KS., KEITH HAMILTON (WENDY) OF SEMINOLE, OK., STEVE HAMILTON (GAYLA) ALSO OF SEMINOLE, OK., AND JULIE TOWNSEND (RON) OF KINGFISHER, OK., THIRTEEN GRANDCHILDREN: JOSH, KAILEY, JORDAN, TAYLOR, ZACHARY, HUNTER, DUSTIN, DAKOTA, SHELBY, LOGAN, SIERRA, PEYTON, AND NIKKI, FOURTEEN GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN, FOUR BROTHERS; JOHNNY SEXTON, RONNIE SEXTON OF CALUMET, REECE SEXTON (ROSE), DOUG SEXTON OF SAPULPA, SISTER TISHA EVANS (ROBERT), CALUMET, LONG-TIME FRIEND & "ADOPTED" SISTER, LINDA REYNOLDS, OF CALUMET, AND NUMEROUS NIECES, NEPHEWS, AND COUSINS.

GRAVESIDE SERVICES WERE HELD ON FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27TH, 2024, 1:00 P.M., AT THE HOLDENVILLE CEMETERY CHAPEL, WITH PASTOR TOMMY JESSE OFFICIATING.

PALLBEARERS WERE JOSH HAMILTON, DUSTIN HAMILTON, LOGAN TECH, HUNTER HAMILTON, MICHAEL BATEMAN AND NICK SMITH. HONORARY PALLBEARERS WERE JEREMY SEXTON, LEVI KLOIBER, AND CHASE EVANS.