Donnie Cleo (Tomlinson) Whisenhunt, 96, of Glover OK passed away March 24, 2025 after a short stay at Memorial Heights Nursing Center in Idabel OK.  She was born February 13,1929 in Red Oak OK, the seventh of eight children and the youngest daughter of William and Serena (Hubble) Tomlinson.  Donnie was the last surviving member of her birth family.

When she was a young girl in grade school, her family moved to live on the west coast in California and Arizona.  Later they returned to southeast Oklahoma where she met her husband. She loved to ride horses, her favorite being her horse Frosty.  She also liked country music  and playing her guitar.  Donnie and J. D. Whisenhunt were married on October 26,1949 in De Queen AR.  They raised three children and shared sixty-five years together.  Her highest priorities were her family and being a homemaker.  Donnie loved to travel and after  J. D. retired from his career after 35 years with Dierks Forests Inc. and the Weyerhaeuser company, they enjoyed traveling the country in their RV’s site seeing, visiting siblings, attending Tomlinson and Whisenhunt family reunions, hosting family holiday get-togethers, and going to country & gospel music shows & festivals.  She and J. D. also ran their farming business together from 1970 – 2000, with Donnie managing the finances and scheduling and J. D. managing the physical & contract operations while still holding his fulltime job with the Weyerhaeuser Company.  Donnie’s hobbies included her family albums and genealogy, family heirlooms and antiquing, reading all kinds of literature, her flowers and fruit trees, and most of all bragging-on her grandchildren and great-grandchildren.  Donnie served her community by pitching-in to ready the Glover School for the new school year each fall as well as chaperoning school field trips for over a decade while her husband served on the school board.  She also served as a census-taker for McCurtain County.

She was preceded in death by her husband; two children: Shirley Whisenhunt, Paris TX, and Justin Jay Whisenhunt of Broken Bow OK; grandchildren: William Lemuel Guthery of La Porte-Alvin TX, and Justin Jay Whisenhunt Jr. of North Richland Hills TX; sons-in-law: Derald Wayne Allen of Glover OK and Lemuel Edward Guthery of Friendswood TX; her parents of Glover OK; father- and mother-in-law Jesse Daniel and Pearl Daisy (Raines) Whisenhunt of Glover OK; sisters: Ella Mae (Tomlinson) Woodruff of Glover OK, and Della (Tomlinson) Cates of Rio Oso CA; brothers: Clarence Tomlinson of Red Oak OK, Nolan Tomlinson of Red Oak OK, Virgil Tomlinson of Golden OK, Alvin Talley Tomlinson of Glover OK, and Troy Donzel Tomlinson of El Dorado AR; sisters-in-law: Varennes (Engler) Tomlinson, Mary Jo (Maze) Tomlinson, Vera (Cates) Cogburn, Donna (Thrift) Jackson, Lula Mae (Whisenhunt) Bean, Josephine (Whisenhunt) Bacorn, Faye (Whisenhunt) Sokolov, and Merlene (Gammon) Whisenhunt; and brothers-in-law: Ernest Woodruff, Henry Cates, Tom Stewart, William Hayes, Gene Eastburn, Clarence Bean, Henry Temple, Jay Butler, Harlin Lovely, Gilbert Bacorn, and Ross Sokolov; nieces & nephews: Stanley Woodruff, Jimmy Woodruff, Dallas Woodruff, Sue (Cates) Duncan, Barbara Jean (Cates) Nahas, and Serena Ann (Tomlinson) Roberts.

Donnie is survived by two daughters: Evelyn Jo Whisenhunt-Guthery of Friendswood TX, and Arlene (Whisenhunt) Allen and spouse Don Cupit of Glover OK; five grandchildren: Joseph Edward Guthery and wife Nelda (Carlisle) of Mobile AL, Samuel Alexander Hubble Guthery of Alvin TX, Jesse Cheyenne Whisenhunt of Leipsic OH, Denae Danielle (Whisenhunt) and husband Justin Archer of Hickory NC, and Arlen Derald Allen and wife Jan (Thomas) of Glover OK; step grandchild: Kyle Skelton; great-grandchildren: Jackson, Colt, and Scarlett Archer; step great-great grandchildren: Serenity and Teva Perry; step great-great-great grandchild Ezra Perry; daughter-in-law Gena (Gary) Brown; sister-in-law Donna Lee (Whisenhunt) Lovely; brothers-in-law: Bo Whisenhunt and wife Georgia, Glen Whisenhunt and wife Norma, Ron Whisenhunt and wife Charlene, and Jimmy Whisenhunt; nieces and nephews: Ronnie Woodruff, June (Woodruff) Blair, Billy Wayne Cates, LaVon (Cates) Scheiber, Danny Ray Cates, Clara Ruth (Tomlinson) Angell Krank, Cathy (Tomlinson) Langston, Glenda (Tomlinson) Farris, Dale Tomlinson, Tim Tomlinson, Thad Tomlinson, and Sherry Kay (Tomlinson) Callicott, as well as a host of extended cousins and friends.

Services are under the direction of Bunch-Singleton Funeral Home in Broken Bow OK.  The family will host a private family night with relatives and friends of the family on Thursday March 27th 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. at the Bunch-Singleton Funeral Home Chapel, followed the next day by a graveside service at 2:00 p.m. with her grandnephew Bro. Lynn Tomlinson officiating. Interment will follow when she will be laid to rest next to her late husband at the Glover Community Cemetery in Glover OK.  Her Pallbearers will be:  grandsons Arlen Allen, Joseph Guthery and Sam Guthery; grandnephew Shannon Tomlinson and Don Cupit; and longtime family friends and neighbors Dewayne Bean and Roger Routh.

The family would like to extend our deepest gratitude to the staff members at Mays Home Health Care in Broken Bow, McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Medical City Hospital in McKinney TX, CompleteOK Hospice Care in Broken Bow, and Memorial Heights Nursing Center in Idabel for the care, kindness and patience provided to our mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother over the past several years, as well as to the staff at Bunch-Singleton Funeral Home in Broken Bow and Sandy’s Flowers & Gifts in Idabel for their kindness and assistance during this difficult time.  Words are not enough to express our appreciation.