Coweta L. Holdaway

July 29, 1946 - June 11, 2019

A graveside service for Coweta will be held 2:00 P.M., Saturday, June 15, 2019 at the Beggs Cemetery with Reverend Chad Eads officiating. Friends may visit the Beggs Funeral Home from 12:00 P.M. -8:00 P.M. on Friday and the family will be present to receive friends from 6:00 P.M. – 8:00 P.M. Arrangements have been entrusted to the McClendon-Winters Funeral Home of Beggs. A memorial tribute has been written by the Holdaway family. Momma was born in her grandmother’s house in Beggs, Oklahoma and grew up with a rowdy group of cousins. Mom was never caught up in the ornery things that the older kids got up to because her and Donna Sue were the lookouts. That was the only way that the older kids would let them tag along. Momma loved spending time with her family especially her grandparents. Family was the most important thing to her on earth. When she was 16 she married our dad. He was 19 and her daddy made her promise that she would finish high school if he let her marry him and she did. Graduating from Nuyaka High School in 1964. Since mom was still a kid herself she loved playing paper dolls with us. She cut the dolls out of the sears catalog and we had families dressed for any possible activity from weddings to picnics with cars she made from cereal boxes. She also taught us Sunday School at home on the days that we couldn’t make it to church, complete with a felt board and her big box of clippings that she could use to demonstrate any possible Bible story. Momma could sew, crochet , embroidery and cook. All things she learnt from her mother and her favorite teacher Mrs. Spears. She made us clothes, all of us, from the same bolt of cloth that she picked out from Aunt Neva’s. She passed many of these skills on to us and her grandkids. So many times she would have a group of her grandkids cross stitching or hand quilting and they actually sat there and did it. None of us were allowed to say we were bored, because her answer was always “well I’m sure I can find some work for you to do”. That wasn’t a threat it was a promise. Our momma wasn’t just the housewife though, she was much more like a pioneer woman. She plowed the fields, fixed fence and hauled wood right beside her husband and children. She and daddy never told any of us that a job was either women’s work or men’s work. It was just work and the more hands the lighter the work. Momma didn’t spare the rod, or the hot wheel track, or the fly swat, or the flip flop, or whatever happened to be within reach, she didn’t spare it with her nieces and nephews either and no one will forget her “tattle tales get the first whipping” rule. Coweta Holdaway was born on July 29, 1946 and left this world on June 11th, 2019 She was proceeded in death by her parents, Mary and Esco Holden; a son, Danny Wayne Holdaway; a grandson, Gary Wayne Graham; and a son-in-law, Steve Bolton. She is survived by her husband of 56 years, Ronnie Holdaway A daughter, Kelli Bolton and her family, Ben and Holly Graham, Veronica Graham and Brandon, Brantley and Cole LeJeune. A daughter and son-in-law, Rhonda and Harry Turner and their family, Eric and Venus Turner, Eileen, Michael, Jude and Harrison Paulsen, Jade and Jeromy Hynes, Tyler and Jessica Holdaway, Andrew and Breezy Turner, Kevin Turner, Jordan Turner, Emily Turner, Zoe Bowen, Alexia Turner, Christopher Elliot, Damien Turner, Gabbi Elliot and Jeromy Hynes, Jr. A son and daughter-in-law, Thomas and Darcy Holdaway and their family, Michael Sills, Brigitte and Aniyah Sills, Kirsten and Leo Lopez, Chad, Haley, Caton and Rohan Sills, and Caleb Holdaway. A son and daughter-in-law, Anthony and Katie Holdaway and their family, Kaleb Holdaway and Lexi Holdaway. And many other family members that it would be impossible to list here, but were near and dear to her heart as well.