Sadie Faye (Welch) Griffin-Wells

Funeral services for Sadie Faye (Welch) Griffin-Wells, 80, Clinton resident, will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Kiesau Memorial Chapel of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton, officiated by Rev. Jesse Musick.

Mrs. Wells died Monday, Sept. 8, 2014, in the Integris Clinton Regional Hospital. She was born Oct. 31, 1933, in Rogers, Ark., the daughter of Burl and Trixie (Ragsdale) Welch.

She was raised in Sweetwater and Sayre, and married James C. Griffin on July 23, 1948 in Wheeler, Texas.

They made their homes in Sayre and then moved to Clinton in 1953.

She attended nursing school at Oklahoma General Hospital in Clinton toward becoming a licensed practical nurse and graduated in 1973.

She worked with Dr. Gary Hays, Methodist Health Care, Grace Living Center and the Clinton Veterans Center. She later married Chuck Wells in 1993 in Wheeler, Texas.

She was a member of the Christian Church.

Preceding her in death were her two husbands; a daughter, Janet Adams; and a granddaughter, Samantha Adams.

Survivors include three daughters, Phyllis Roof and her husband, Clifford, of Clinton, Lisa Heinrichs and her husband, Damon, of Tuttle, and Teresa Huttenmaier and her husband, Dan, of Emporia, Kan.; a son-in-law, Arnold Adams; a brother, Earl Welch, of Temple, Ariz.; seven grandchildren, James Ray Adams, Ricky Roof, Tommy Roof, Tiffany Coffey, Stuart Holcomb, Krystal Newman and Morgan Heinrichs; and seven great-grandchildren.

Burial will conclude in the Arapaho Cemetery.