William (Bill) George Wilks

June 18, 1944 - October 11, 2016

William George (Bill) Wilks was born June 18, 1944 to Flossie Victoria (Province) Wilks and William “Joy” Wilks in Alva, Oklahoma and passed away October 11, 2016 in Enid, Oklahoma at the age of 72 yrs., 3 mos., and 23 days. He attended the Alva School system and graduated with the class of 1962. Bill’s given name was William George, but he always went by the name of Bill – “because a duck would look funny with his william stuck in the mud and not his bill”. August 11, 1967 he married Elizabeth Gail Witchey at the Alva Church of God. To this union two girls Zandi & Lyn, were born. He told them often that “he could mend anything but a broken heart and he had tried that”. The family lived in Alva where Bill was a heavy machinery mechanic. He worked at Ford Garage in Kiowa Ks., Devery Equipment and Tri-K before going to work for the State Highway Department where he was a mechanic for Woods, Alfalfa & Major counties out of Buffalo, (division 6) until he retired after 30 years. Bill was a member of the Bible Baptist Church. He and Gail were saved and baptized together in 1978. He served 21 years with the Oklahoma National Guards serving with Bravo Field Artillery Division out of Alva. Bill loved hunting, fishing and sharing funny jokes and stories with everyone-because he never knew a stranger. He was known to help anyone who needed help. He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters; Vera Mae Wilks, Vergie Jean Hada and Ina Darlene Harth, and one grandson Joshua William. He is survived by his wife Gail, daughters and their husbands; Zandi and Bud Rankin of Canadian, Texas and Lyn and Stephen Doman of Wichita Falls, Texas; four grandchildren: Jeremy Rankin and wife Beverly, Elizabeth and husband Ricky Diefenbach, Douglas Doman and Erica Roberts, three great grand-children Jozlynn, Addison and Porter. He is also survived by a sister, Joyce and her husband Jack McCray, a brother-in-law Harold Hada; Aunt Wilma and her husband Bryce Adair; other nieces, nephews other relatives and friends. Memorial contributions may be made in his honor to the Bible Baptist Church or Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation for Heart Disease.