Daughter of Charles Lee and Beulah (Livingston) Coureton.

Wife of Bruce Eugene Tawney, whom she married on 3 Aug 1938 at Macon, Macon County, Missouri.

Mother of Lois Anne (Tawney) Luginbuel and Jeremiah 'Jerry' Tawney.

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MRS. MARJORIE LEE TAWNEY, 86 year old Vinitan, passed away Monday morning at the Craig General Hospital.

Mrs. Tawney was born in Renick, Missouri on July 14, 1921. She was a graduate of Moberly, Missouri High School and Moberly College. As a young woman she was an avid tennis player and ice skater. She was the only woman in her peer group that would ice skate on a frozen pond in the cold winters of Northern Missouri.

She and her sister Velma played on the same basketball team and were affectionately called the "Coureton Sisters" by their classmates. She would tell of loading her parents Model T car with the team and traveling to play other schools. She moved to Vinita in 1954 from Moberly, Missouri. Together with her husband Bruce they operated the Twins Drive-In for 13 years on North Wilson Street in Vinita.

She stayed very active until her life was interrupted by a serious illness. She truly believed that God, family and friends were her sustaining factors.

Mrs. Tawney was preceded in death by her husband Bruce, her parents Charles and Beulah Coureton, and her sister, Mrs. Velma Sauer.

The family of Mrs. Marjorie Tawney includes two children: Mrs. Lois Luginbuel and her husband Jack of Vinita and Jerry Tawney and his wife Jeanne of Grove. There are four grandchildren: Sheila Dills and her husband Joey of Tulsa, David Luginbuel and his wife Kathleen of Bartlesville, Nancy Qualkenbush and her husband Jeff of Las Cruces, New Mexico and Mace Tawney and his wife Amy of Centennial, Texas. There are three great-grandchildren: Annie Dills, Noah Tawney and Zachary Tawney..

The funeral services for Mrs. Tawney will be Thursday at 2:00 p.m. in the Luginbuel Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Bob Johns, pastor of the First United Methodist Church, officiating, assisted by Dr. Henry Haynes. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery in Vinita.

The funeral arrangements are by Luginbuel Funeral Home of Vinita and condolences may be sent at www.honoringmemories.com.