Funeral services for Alta Colene Talbert, 95, of Chickasha, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, July 11, 2021 at the Northside Church of Christ with Pastor Jim Talbert officiating and Landon Lewis assisting.
Alta Colene (Akins) Talbert, known as Colene, was born July 5, 1927 in Gracemont, Oklahoma, the daughter of Arthur Lee Akins and Nanny Ethel (Cocheran) Akins. She passed from this life on Wednesday, July 6, 2022 in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Colene grew up in Cement and she went to elementary school in Washita and then Anadarko. She graduated from Cement High School.
On February 4, 1950 she married Lester Lee Talbert and they shared 59 years together until his death in January 2009.
Colene worked as a teacher’s aide in the community for many years. She enjoyed sewing and painting. She and Lester were lifelong members of the Northside Church of Christ and they were very active in the church. Her best love was her church and her church family. She loved her children and grandchildren deeply and will be greatly missed.
She was preceded in death by both her parents, her husband Lester Talbert, a great-granddaughter Eden Elizabeth Ellis and nine siblings and spouses.
Survivors include her children Jeffrey Talbert and wife Natalie, Kenneth Talbert, and Elizabeth Richardson and husband Glynn, all of Chickasha; sister Margie Akins and brother Delbert Akins of Chickasha; sisters-in-law Shirley Akins and Orlin Akins also of Chickasha; seven grandchildren and six great-grandchildren; and other extended family and friends.
Interment will be in Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of Ferguson Funeral Home where words of comfort or condolences may be expressed at www.ferguson-funeralhome.com .