Wanda Driver Cross, 94, of McAlester, died Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, at a local nursing center.

Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Bishop Chapel of Memories with Dr. Tom Murray officiating. Burial will be at Oak Hill Cemetery under the direction of Bishop Funeral Service.

Born Dec. 3, 1914, in Mead, to John Calvin and Agnes Maude Keirsey Yarborough, she attended high school at the Oklahoma Presbyterian College, in Durant, graduating in the class of 1931. She then attended Southeastern State College in Durant, before moving to McAlester.

She worked at the W.P.A. building, in McAlester, three years before beginning her career at the United States Naval Ammunition Depot in 1943. She continued her employment until retirement in 1976, as the payroll clerk. She was a longtime active member of the McAlester First Presbyterian Church and Past Worthy Matron of the Faith Chapter of the Order of The Eastern Star, receiving her 50 year achievement pin in 1993. She was very devoted to the Special Olympics program, walking around town picking up aluminum cans for donation money.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Bill and Sue Harris, of Edmond; three grandchildren and spouses, Stephanie and Garvin Stevens, of Olive, William Brent and Lynda Harris, of Woodward, John Kevin and Carol Harris, of Little Rock, Ark.

And, six great-grandchildren, Kyndal Renee’ Stevens, Sabrina Krueger and husband, Jason, Shane Eller, William Seth Harris, Sarah Grace Harris, Tucker Wilson Harris; a great-great-granddaughter, Jozlynn Krueger, and a brother-in-law, I.E. “Buck” Conner and wife, Kathryn, of McAlester.

She was preceded in death by her parents, John and Maude Yarborough; the father of her son, Bryan Holland Harris; her first husband, Claud H. Driver in 1983; her second husband, Forrest W. “Sam” Cross in 2008; her sister, Mittibelle Conner in 1995; her great granddaughter, Kecia DeAnn Stevens in 2007, and her daughter-in-law, Dena Delores Harris in 2007.

Pallbearers include Garvin Stevens, Brent Harris, John Harris, Jason Krueger, Buck Conner and Angelika Monks.

The family requests memorials be made to the First Presbyterian Church, P.O. Box 1550, McAlester, OK, 74502.