Delorse S. Merrill Arnold

© Enid News and Eagle

02-05-2014

Submitted by: Glenn

© Glenn

BISON, OK — Funeral service for Delorse S. Merrill Arnold, 84, will be 10 a.m. Thursday, Feb. 6, 2014, at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel, with Pastor William Beard and Brother Tom Cooksey officiating. Burial will follow in Hawley Cemetery, with arrangements by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

Delorse was born Feb. 7, 1929, to Flossie and Otis Merrill in Bristow, Okla., and passed away Sunday, Feb. 2, 2014.

As a young child, the family moved to Cherokee, Okla., where Delorse graduated from Cherokee High School in 1947.

On Oct. 8, 1949, she married Virgil Arnold in Cherokee. The couple and their children lived in Sand Creek, Okla., then Bluff City, Kan., and later settled in Byron, Okla., until 1983, when they moved back to Cherokee.

Delorse worked at Byron and Burlington public schools for a total of over 20 years.

She is survived by six children, Barbara (Bob) Clover of Ottawa, Kan., Dennis Arnold of Enid, David (Janet) Arnold of Clinton, Utah, Beverly (Steve) Lett of Enid, Karen (Jerry) Stumbo of Broken Arrow, Okla., and Jill Arnold of Denton, Texas; four grandchildren, Jennifer (Kris) Wire of Pond Creek, Robert (Debbie) Clover of Louisburg, Kan., Andrea (Curt) Ondracek of Enid, J.T. Lett of Enid; eight great-grandchildren, Russell, Brent, Justin and Morgan Wire, Cole and Levi Clover, and Caleb and Cason Ondracek; her sister, Gracie Haskins of Thibodeaux, La.; brother, Bob Merrill of Moore, Okla.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Virgil Arnold; brothers, Ira, JC, Hiram, Gene, Don and Larry; and two sisters, Edith Merrill and Elsie Clark.

Memorials may be made to Greenbrier Activities Fund or Burlington Education Foundation.

Guest book available at www.andersonburris.com.

(Submitted by family)

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