Melton L. Lister

The homegoing services celebrating and honoring the life of Melton LaRoy Lister, 61, of Enid, will be held 10:00 A.M. Thursday, November 2, 2023, in the Stride Bank Center Arena with Pastor Brad Mendenhall officiating. Burial will be held 10:00 A.M. Friday, November 3, 2023, in the Clinton Cemetery, Clinton, Oklahoma. Sports attire and Jeans are requested however, everyone is welcome. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings, life celebration home.

Melton was born October 28, 1961, to Verdell Barker and Norman Lister in Clinton, Oklahoma and passed away October 20, 2023, in Enid, Oklahoma.

Melton moved to Enid at the age of 15 to attend Enid State School, while attending school he played basketball and went bowling. He made Enid his home after finishing school and began hanging out at Shamrock Bowl, where Jack Tate took him under his wing, and history was made because he became part of the bowling family. He was a very caring person and there was nothing he wouldn’t do for you, all you had to do was ask. He also worked at Golden Corral, Applebee’s, El Chico, McDonalds and IHOP, where he was a dish washer and grounds keeper and worked for over forty years at Shamrock Bowl and Oakwood Bowl doing grounds keepers work and helping wherever needed. The love of Melton’s life was bowling and his bowling family. The only days he ever missed were days that he went out of town to visit his Clinton family. He would often beat the opening person to the bowling alley just waiting patiently out beneath the tree in the shade. He was the bowling alleys “right hand man”, always doing the jobs that no one else wanted to do. He was more than a hard worker he was a friend to all that came into the bowling center and a best friend to all the employees.

He loved to watch sports, local and professional. He was a fan of Enid High School Football, Dallas Cowboys, and OU Sooners. There was never a score that he couldn’t tell you about; he even attended the Dallas Cowboy football game that Emmit Smith broke the all-time NFL rushing record on October 27, 2002, with Jim Tate, making one of his dreams come true. He loved bowling. He also enjoyed writing, making many sorts of notepads, and keeping stats from games, newspaper articles and other information he found valuable. He also wrote letters to professional athletes requesting signatures, to which some replied. Also to past bowlers, and to family and friends and in those letters, he would include coupons and calendars; he kept the US Post office in business. He spent his weekend days going to garage sales with one of his best friends, Ron Williams.

There will forever be a big hole in our hearts that Melton left behind, but it will be filled with the love of Jesus. Melton loved the Lord and want all to love HIM too.

He is survived by three brothers, Calvin Lister, Mitchell Lister, and Lonnie Lister; three sisters, Arzella Heras, Valerie Teal, and Valerie Lambert, all of Clinton, Oklahoma; his bowling family, Jim, Sandy, and Gary Tate, Sean, Kira, Allyssa, Presleigh, and Audie Mathis; Josh, Robin, Mercedes, and Maya Luna; Shirley Russell, and scores of other employees and friends.

He was preceded in death by his mother Verdell Barker, His father Norman Lister, a brother Norman Lister Jr. and a sister, Irene Ramsey, and bowling family members Jack Tate and Gary Rice.

In his honor please consider bringing a new or lightly used stuffed animal to the service to be donated to a local organization.

Condolences and special memories may be shared with the family online at WWW.Brown-Cummings.com.