In Memory of Summer Deshotel

Summer Marie Deshotel was born May 3rd, 2002, in McAlester, Oklahoma to Sanessa Waldrop and Toby Deshotel. She passed away on November 7th, 2023, at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital after a long battle with cancer.

Visitation will be held from 2:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on Monday, November 13th, 2023 at the Waldrop Funeral Home Chapel in Wilburton, Oklahoma.

A funeral service will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, November 14th, 2023 at SonShine Fellowship Church in Wilburton with Rev. Kenny Harris officiating. The burial will follow at Memorial Gardens Cemetery.

Pallbearers will be Bradley Jones, Brendon Waldrop, Kirstin Ayers, Malaya Sanchez, Ka’maree Gragg, and Lila Gragg. Honorary Pallbearers will be LeAnn Deshotel, Gerald Waldrop, Shyanna Mills, and Makayla Maltese.

Summer was full of love, laughter, and strength. She loved her family, especially her siblings. She was strong, determined and as so many would say, stubborn to the core. She loved God and kept her relationship with Him throughout it all. She spoke of her church family often and loved to attend church services at Sonshine Fellowship whenever she was able.

Summer is survived by her mother and step-dad: Sanessa and Jerral Waldrop of Wilburton; her siblings: LeAnn Deshotel, Brendon, Gerald, Landon, Jessa, Kateland, and Jimmie Waldrop; niece, Abby O’Hern; maternal grandparents: Doug and Robin Maltese; paternal grandparents: Mike and Christine Deshotel and Darlene Deshotel all of Evangeline, Louisiana; bonus grandparents: Willy and Glenda Jones of Wilburton; grandma: Brenda Wilson of Eufaula; aunts and uncles: Stacy Cart, Darren Deshotel, La Cora and Joe Clawson, Terral and Victoria Waldrop, Sandra Howe, Amy and Victor Artiga, Teddie and Brandie Whitt, Chasity Maltese, Mary Maltese, and Chris and Sara Fenelon; along with numerous cousins, two of her which happen to be her best friends: Malaya Sanchez and Shyanna Mills.

She is preceded in death by her father: Toby Deshotel; great grandmas: Marietta Maltese, Betty Flick and Maw Maw Gatte; and papa: Jimmie Don Wilson.