Funeral services for Kathleen Brooks Burgess Doyle, Durant, who died Sunday, April 4, 2010, at the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma in Durant, will be held at 2pm Thursday at the Coffey-Murray Funeral Chapel. Rev. Tim Cox will officiate. Interment will follow in the Albany Cemetery.
She was born Thursday, Jan. 5, 1933, in Albany to Emert Leon and Lois Anne (Vandenburg) Brooks. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church and was a children's church leader and women's ministry. She attended schools at Wade, Bray, Beames and Bokchito. She finished four years at Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in education.
She worked at many different kinds of jobs, but the ones she enjoyed most were teaching school and being a corrections officer at the Oklahoma State Prison.
Kathleen married Buford Burgess on Oct. 12, 1950, and they had six children. Later in life, she married James Doyle of Hartshorne. Both Mr. Burgess and Mr. Doyle preceded her in death.
She enjoyed hunting, fishing, quilting, gardening and making fried pies, but most of all, she enjoyed being a mother and grandmother and was a great one.
Kathleen was also preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and two sisters.
She is survived by her sons Larry Wayne Burgess and wife Paula of Coleman, Danny Lee Burgess and wife Rhonda of Collinsville, and David Burgess and wife Charlene of Cassville, Mo.; daughters Laquita Ann Fox of Durant, Penny Lynn Burgess of Durant, and Belinda Kay Burgess of Hurst, Texas; sisters Martha Dawson of Durant, Gayleen Palmer of Ft. Worth, Texas, Linda Cheek of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Judy Starkus of Durant; 13 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
Jerry Burgess, Larry Keith Burgess, Jeremy Fox, Zack Franks, John David Burgess and Terry Burgess will serve as pallbearers. David Burgess, Ronnie Lowe, Bradley Brooks, Leroy Brooks and Gary Brooks will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Family hour will be from 6–7 p.m. Wednesday at the Coffey-Murray Funeral Home. Services are under the direction of Coffey-Murray Funeral Home.
She was born Thursday, Jan. 5, 1933, in Albany to Emert Leon and Lois Anne (Vandenburg) Brooks. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church and was a children's church leader and women's ministry. She attended schools at Wade, Bray, Beames and Bokchito. She finished four years at Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in education.
She worked at many different kinds of jobs, but the ones she enjoyed most were teaching school and being a corrections officer at the Oklahoma State Prison.
Kathleen married Buford Burgess on Oct. 12, 1950, and they had six children. Later in life, she married James Doyle of Hartshorne. Both Mr. Burgess and Mr. Doyle preceded her in death.
She enjoyed hunting, fishing, quilting, gardening and making fried pies, but most of all, she enjoyed being a mother and grandmother and was a great one.
Kathleen was also preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and two sisters.
She is survived by her sons Larry Wayne Burgess and wife Paula of Coleman, Danny Lee Burgess and wife Rhonda of Collinsville, and David Burgess and wife Charlene of Cassville, Mo.; daughters Laquita Ann Fox of Durant, Penny Lynn Burgess of Durant, and Belinda Kay Burgess of Hurst, Texas; sisters Martha Dawson of Durant, Gayleen Palmer of Ft. Worth, Texas, Linda Cheek of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Judy Starkus of Durant; 13 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
Jerry Burgess, Larry Keith Burgess, Jeremy Fox, Zack Franks, John David Burgess and Terry Burgess will serve as pallbearers. David Burgess, Ronnie Lowe, Bradley Brooks, Leroy Brooks and Gary Brooks will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Family hour will be from 6–7 p.m. Wednesday at the Coffey-Murray Funeral Home. Services are under the direction of Coffey-Murray Funeral Home.
Funeral services for Kathleen Brooks Burgess Doyle, Durant, who died Sunday, April 4, 2010, at the Medical Center of Southeastern Oklahoma in Durant, will be held at 2pm Thursday at the Coffey-Murray Funeral Chapel. Rev. Tim Cox will officiate. Interment will follow in the Albany Cemetery.
She was born Thursday, Jan. 5, 1933, in Albany to Emert Leon and Lois Anne (Vandenburg) Brooks. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church and was a children's church leader and women's ministry. She attended schools at Wade, Bray, Beames and Bokchito. She finished four years at Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in education.
She worked at many different kinds of jobs, but the ones she enjoyed most were teaching school and being a corrections officer at the Oklahoma State Prison.
Kathleen married Buford Burgess on Oct. 12, 1950, and they had six children. Later in life, she married James Doyle of Hartshorne. Both Mr. Burgess and Mr. Doyle preceded her in death.
She enjoyed hunting, fishing, quilting, gardening and making fried pies, but most of all, she enjoyed being a mother and grandmother and was a great one.
Kathleen was also preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and two sisters.
She is survived by her sons Larry Wayne Burgess and wife Paula of Coleman, Danny Lee Burgess and wife Rhonda of Collinsville, and David Burgess and wife Charlene of Cassville, Mo.; daughters Laquita Ann Fox of Durant, Penny Lynn Burgess of Durant, and Belinda Kay Burgess of Hurst, Texas; sisters Martha Dawson of Durant, Gayleen Palmer of Ft. Worth, Texas, Linda Cheek of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Judy Starkus of Durant; 13 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
Jerry Burgess, Larry Keith Burgess, Jeremy Fox, Zack Franks, John David Burgess and Terry Burgess will serve as pallbearers. David Burgess, Ronnie Lowe, Bradley Brooks, Leroy Brooks and Gary Brooks will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Family hour will be from 6–7 p.m. Wednesday at the Coffey-Murray Funeral Home. Services are under the direction of Coffey-Murray Funeral Home.
She was born Thursday, Jan. 5, 1933, in Albany to Emert Leon and Lois Anne (Vandenburg) Brooks. She was a member of Grace Baptist Church and was a children's church leader and women's ministry. She attended schools at Wade, Bray, Beames and Bokchito. She finished four years at Southeastern Oklahoma State University with a bachelor's degree in education.
She worked at many different kinds of jobs, but the ones she enjoyed most were teaching school and being a corrections officer at the Oklahoma State Prison.
Kathleen married Buford Burgess on Oct. 12, 1950, and they had six children. Later in life, she married James Doyle of Hartshorne. Both Mr. Burgess and Mr. Doyle preceded her in death.
She enjoyed hunting, fishing, quilting, gardening and making fried pies, but most of all, she enjoyed being a mother and grandmother and was a great one.
Kathleen was also preceded in death by her parents, four brothers and two sisters.
She is survived by her sons Larry Wayne Burgess and wife Paula of Coleman, Danny Lee Burgess and wife Rhonda of Collinsville, and David Burgess and wife Charlene of Cassville, Mo.; daughters Laquita Ann Fox of Durant, Penny Lynn Burgess of Durant, and Belinda Kay Burgess of Hurst, Texas; sisters Martha Dawson of Durant, Gayleen Palmer of Ft. Worth, Texas, Linda Cheek of Ft. Worth, Texas, and Judy Starkus of Durant; 13 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and many other relatives and friends.
Jerry Burgess, Larry Keith Burgess, Jeremy Fox, Zack Franks, John David Burgess and Terry Burgess will serve as pallbearers. David Burgess, Ronnie Lowe, Bradley Brooks, Leroy Brooks and Gary Brooks will serve as honorary pallbearers.
Family hour will be from 6–7 p.m. Wednesday at the Coffey-Murray Funeral Home. Services are under the direction of Coffey-Murray Funeral Home.
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