Ms. Ollie Mae Higgs, in her 78th year, went to be with the Lord on Friday morning, October 30, 2020 from Okmulgee, Oklahoma.

OLLIE MAE HIGGS WAS BORN TO OSCAR HIGGS SR. AND HATTIE DUNN HIGGS ON APRIL 2, 1942
AT OKTAHA, OKLAHOMA. THE FAMILY LATER MOVED TO OKMULGEE WHERE THEY SETTLED
AND SET THEIR ROOTS.

SHE ATTENDED UGANDA MARTYR CATHOLIC SCHOOL DURING HER EARLY EDUCATION YEARS
AND LATER MOVED TO HISTORIC DUNBAR HIGH SCHOOL WHERE SHE COMPLETED HER
SECONDARY EDUCATION. UPON GRADUATION, SHE GRADUATED AND OBTAINED HER LICENSE
AS A BEAUTICIAN.

OLLIE WORKED AT NUMEROUS JOBS DURING HER WORKING CAREER. SHE FOUND HER NICHE
WORKING WITH CHILDREN AT OKMULGEE HIGH SCHOOL AND LATER MOVED TO WESTSIDE
ELEMENTARY UNTIL HER RETIREMENT.

SHE WAS DEDICATED TO BEING A PART OF ALL CHURCH SERVICES AND DOING HER PART. AS
HER HEALTH BEGAN TO SLOW HER DOWN, SHE CONTINUED TO LET HER LIGHT SHINE IN
SERVING THE LORD. HER GREATEST JOY WAS TRYING TO HELP OTHERS FIND THEIR WAY TO
GOD. SHE WOULD STUDY AND READ THE BIBLE WITH PEOPLE BY WAY OF THE TELEPHONE AND
TRY TO GET THEM TO FIND THEIR WAY.

OLLIE LIVED THE SCRIPTURE FOUND IN ST. JOHN 4:9 WHICH STATES, "I MUST WORK THE
WORKS OF HIM THAT SENT ME WHILE IT IS DAY: THE NIGHT COMETH, WHEN NO MAN CAN
WORK."

PRECEDING HER IN DEATH WERE HER PARENTS, HER BROTHERS JOHN HIGGS, OSCAR HIGGS JR.
AND ARZELL HIGGS. HER SISTER COZELL HIGGS BOWIE ALSO PRECEDED HER IN DEATH ALONG
WITH THREE INFANT SIBLINGS.

SHE LEAVES IN GOD'S ARMS A BROTHER, OVERSEER CLINDELL HIGGS (LATRICIA) OF OKLAHOMA
CITY AND A SISTER, TOLEDO HIGGS MCGEE (PAUL) OF OKMULGEE; SISTER-IN-LAW EUNICE
HIGGS AND A HOST OF NIECES, NEPHEWS AND COUSINS ALONG WITH HER MANY FRIENDS,
TELEPHONE PARTNERS AND CO-WORKERS.

The Service of Memory for Sister Higgs will be held on Wednesday, November 4, 2020 at 11:00 AM in the most Holy Sanctuary of the Mount Zion Missionary Baptist Church.  Dr. D. M. Currington is the gracious host and Elder Marcus Long, Pastor of the Church of the Living God, Officiating.  Burial will follow in the Woodlawn Cemetery in Okmulgee.

You may visit Ollie Mae on Tuesday from 1:00 PM until 6:00 PM at the funeral home in Okmulgee.