Audie Edith (Duckworth) Keith
Nov 24, 1922 - Apr 6, 2017
Posted by Jo Aguirre
 

Harmon County Funeral Home

Born Nov 24, 1922 to parents Will and Cora Duckworth. She was born in the home which was 2 miles north of the Ron schoolhouse. She was the 4th child in the family and started to school at the Teacross School, north of Hollis. Quantrell Tucker was the principal and Ruth Fancher was her first teacher. When Edith was in the 4th grade the family of eight children and parents moved to Vinson where she attended until she graduated from high school. Edith was valedictorian of her senior graduating class. She then attended Cameron College in Lawton for a short time. She and a friend, Alma Holder, moved to California to be with Edith’s brother there. While in California, Edith and Alma worked for the naval air station in Alameda, California. Edith returned to Oklahoma and began work at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. On her first return visit to Hollis to visit her parents she met W.J. (Dub) Keith and they began dating. She and Dub were married in Oklahoma City, and found a home in the Arnett community. Dub began farming. Edith and Dub continued to live in Harmon County and Dub rented land from his Uncle Raymond Keith and Raymond built a new home next to his home six miles north of Hollis for Dub and Edith. While living there two children were born, Nancy and Kendell. When it was time for Nancy to start to school, Dub bought a housing lot in Hollis and a new house was built there. Both Nancy and Kendell graduated from Hollis High School in 1967 and 1969. Edith and Dub lived in Hollis until Dub passed away in 1986. Edith lived in Hollis until 2012 and thereafter lived in assisted living facilities in Weatherford and Mustang Oklahoma.

Preceded in death by her husband, parents, three brothers and three sisters.

Edith is survived by her two children, Kendell Keith and wife Jane of Alexandria, Virginia; and Nancy (Keith) Austin of Yukon, Oklahoma; her sister Bonnie (Duckworth) Combest of McKinney, Texas; three grandchildren, Kary Rae and Kendra Jane Keith; and Jeffry Austin and wife Kristi; four great grandchildren; as well as numerous nieces and nephews, other family members and friends.

Funeral service will be at 2:00 pm, Monday, April 10, 2017 at the First Baptist Church in Hollis with Jeff Dill officiating.

Interment will follow at Fairmount Cemetery in Hollis under the direction of Harmon County Funeral Home, Hollis, Oklahoma.

To sign the online guest book and share memories with the family please visit www.HarmonCountyFuneral.com