Lena Mae Billie

May 25, 1949 - April 12, 2019

Funeral services for Lena Mae Billie will be held Tuesday, April 16, 2019 at 2:00 PM at the Parks Brothers Funeral Home Chapel in Okemah. Interment will follow at the Holahta - Sands Cemetery near Okemah. Wake services will be Monday, 6:00-8:00 PM also at the funeral home chapel. Lena Mae Billie was born May 25, 1949 in Castle, Oklahoma to Willie Cooper and Edith (Sands) Hicks. She passed away Friday, April 12, 2019 in Tulsa, Oklahoma at the age of 69. Lena was a graduate of Mason High School and current resident of Tulsa, Oklahoma. She retired from the Oklahoma Osteopathic Hospital in Tulsa after 11 years of employment. Lena enjoyed playing basketball, dancing, going out to eat and attending family gatherings. She was also a member of the Prairie Spring Indian Baptist Church of Okemah. She is preceded in death by her parents and two brothers, Floyd and Bill Cooper. Survivors include her son, Thomas Billie III of Florida; one daughter, Thomassene Billie of Tulsa; three brothers, Rev. Kenneth Cooper of Okemah, Jackie Cooper of Okemah and Rev. Jimmy Wayne Hicks and wife Rosie of Okemah; one sister, Geneva Coker of Tulsa 10 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren. Serving as active pallbearers will be John Earl Sands, Brett Sands, Justin Billie, Mike Sands, J.J. Hicks and Marcus Cooper. Honorary pallbearer will be Kote Hicks. Services will be under the direction of Parks Brothers Funeral Home, Okemah, Oklahoma and officiated by Rev. Ray Samuel Online condolences may be made at www.ParksBrothersFuneralHome.com.