Graveside services for Joretta Buckles will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, February 22, 2017, at Short Springs Cemetery with Rev. Max Ridgway officiating. Interment will be in Short Springs Cemetery under the direction of Marshall Funeral Home of Alva.

Joretta Faye, daughter of Erma B. (Vincent) and Luverne G. (Red) Shelite, was born October 13, 1940 in Alva, Oklahoma. She passed away at Beadles Nursing Home in Alva on the 19th of February at the age of 76 years, 4 months and 6 days.

She attended Dacoma public schools and Northwestern Oklahoma State University where she received her bachelor's degre...