Ida Jane Looney was born to Wesley Adkins and Effie Thacker on April 3, 1940. Her education included Greasy Creek School through the 8th grade before she was married. She was married to Billy Gene Looney on December 8, 1956. They were married for 58 years, 1 month, 1 week and 2 days. This union brought them 2 children, Bill Jr. and Donna Jane. Ida's work experience included working on Quantico Marine Corp base at the package store, which is like a convenience store, and then at the Commissary while her husband was stationed there. She worked as a cashier at a convenience store in Woodbridge, Virginia after her husband retired from the Marine Corp. Then while in Defiance, Ohio, Ida worked as a waitress at the Shoney's Big Boy restaurant. Later her husband Bill came to Oklahoma to help Ida's brother Eugene run the Fina service stations he leased. Ida and Bill Jr. followed later and after some time they leased 3 Fina stations of their own, where she worked with her husband and son. After they left the service station business, she worked as a cashier at AMC Market in Oklahoma City. Then she worked at a grocery store in Shepherd Mall, the Bethany liquor store, and Camelot Wine and spirits. While working at a grocery store at Wilshire and Western, Bill Jr. happened to be in the area one day and had gone through her line. She cashed him out and he told her, "Thanks, Mom." Until then she had no idea it was him. I guess she must have really been concentrating on her job. While working at a convenience store in Oklahoma City near where she lived, a customer drove off with the gas hose still inside their tank which spilled gas everywhere and caused a fire. She and another customer had to run through the fire to escape the building. After that she quit. I am sure she had quite a fright. She later worked at a Goodwill store and then at Whitaker's, before retiring. As a child, she and a girlfriend were playing under the front porch. Her brother Johnny Carl was teasing her. He left to go to a friend's house on the other side of the hill. She went over the hill, which was a shortcut, and climbed a tree. When Johnny walked under the tree she dropped a rock on his head. He ran back home crying and bleeding telling his Mom what she had done. In the meantime Ida took the same shortcut over the hill beating Johnny back to the house. Went back under the front porch to play with her girlfriend. When her Mom asked her why she had done that, she and her friend said she had been under the porch the whole time. Johnny got stiches in his head then got a spanking for lying. On another occasion she was playing on a bridge making mud pies and was decorating them with mimosa leaves. Her brother Eugene threatened to eat her mud pies. She then pushed him off the bridge, which resulted in stitches and a spanking for teasing his sister. As a wife, she was not particularly fond of the military life though she supported her husband in his career choices. Mom and Dad enjoyed spending time together and Mom even joined Dad on a few fishing trips until one day she got really sunburned. That ended her going on fishing trips with him. As a Mother: Mom loved both her children very much. While helping Bill Jr. learn to read she would take a napkin and put over the picture. He could only see the picture once he had read the entire page. She did have a serious side. Mom went with Bill Jr. on a field trip to the Toledo Zoo. The teacher told the students that they could not have their mothers carry stuff for them. Bill Jr. soon forgot and asked his Mom to carry his stuff. Mom looked at him and asked him what the teacher said. She made him mind. Their daughter Donna had beautiful blonde hair and blue eyes. She was a lot like Ida as far as her temperament anyway and would often get her brother into trouble telling other kids that her big brother would beat them up. Donna was her Momma's pride and joy. She only lived a short 8 years on this earth, though she left a huge impact on her family. Ida loved to dress her daughter in frilly dresses and after her death stored all her things in a cedar chest that they continued to move with them everywhere they lived. When Bill Jr. and Donna were kids while living in Quantico on-base housing, they were playing with some children and a little boy hit Donna. He ran home and hid behind his mother. Bill Jr. chased him down, pulled him out from behind his mother and hit him. Bill said, "Sorry Ma'am, he hit my sister," and turned around and left. The mother came to the apartment where Bill Jr. and Donna lived later that day. She made the little boy apologize to Donna and then told Ida and Bill Sr. that she was glad that Bill Jr. had done what he did. Bill Jr. got in trouble one day and Mom spanked him on the butt. Donna walked up behind Mom and spanked her on the butt and told her not to hit her brother anymore. Mom told Dad about the incident when he got home. He sat both kids down in a chair side by side to talk with them. He told Donna in a nice calm voice that Mom was not trying to hurt Bill Jr. and it was not right to hit her Mom. Both kids just started busting out crying and Dad could not say one more word because he was about to start crying too. One day while Mom was driving on the Ohio Turnpike from Kentucky back to Ohio Memorial day weekend. Bill Jr. was about 13 or 14 at the time sleeping in the back seat. Dad was asleep in the passenger seat. An Officer pulled up next to Mom who was driving 5 miles over the posted speed and told her, "If you are going to park, pull over to the side." She sped up 5 more miles and he pulled up to her again and said, "I thought I told you if you were going to park, pull over to the side." She socked it to the floor and left him sitting in the dust which awoke Dad enough to look back and see the officer and he said, "You know that was a highway patrol right" She said, "Yes," and he went back to sleep. The officer called ahead and had them stop her when she got off the interstate. They switched seats and the Highway patrol officer walked up to the car and said to Dad, "You weren't driving this vehicle." He said, "No sir, but I will be driving it home." The Officer said, "What kind of engine do you have in this vehicle" and Dad told him, "Everything was stock, the way it was built." He said, "I do not believe you sir, because my patrol car will do 148 mph. You left me like I was almost sitting still." The patrol officer said, "I would like to look at that engine." Dad raised the hood and showed him the engine. Bill Jr. never woke up. As a grandparent, she has 5 grandchildren. Billy and Bobby are the oldest and identical twins. While they were still babies, Ida told a story about how hard it was to feed them. You had to feed them fast; they were very demanding. But soon they grew into handsome men with families of their own. J.B. came along next. He was the youngest for a long time and so he had a special place in her heart. He continued to visit and call her often even after he was grown. Rachel came by way of Bill's second marriage to Jamie; later Bill adopted her. She was Ida's only granddaughter and she decorated a spare bedroom for the grandkids to use for sleepovers, "in pink." Joshua was born of Bill and Jamie's union and then became the baby of the family. He recalls multiply times of his grandma singing to him before bed. She has 4 great grandchildren to date. She is survived by her husband Billy Gene Looney Sr.; her son, Billy Gene Looney Jr. and daughter-in-law Jamie Dee Looney; 5 grandchildren, Billy Ray Looney and his wife Allison Looney; Bobby Ray Looney, his wife Cassie and their children Jasmine, Daniel, and Trinity; James Blaine Looney, Jessica and their daughter Kathleen; Rachel Amanda Looney and Joshua Allen Looney. She was preceded in death by her parents, Wesley and Effie Adkins, Arnold Adkins, Lee Thomas Adkins, Victor Eugene Adkins, Johnny Carl Adkins, Charles and Bertha who died as babies, and Donna Jane her beloved daughter. Funeral services will be Wednesday, January 21, 4:00pm at Mercer-Adams Chapel with interment in Pikeville, KY. Funeral Service Wednesday, January 21, 2015 04:00 PM Mercer-Adams Chapel 3925 N. Asbury Bethany, OK 73008