DOVIE GATLIN LEE - Services for Dovie Gatlin Lee of Thackerville were Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. in the First Baptist Church of Thackerville with Rev. Johnny Reed officiating.
Mrs. Lee was born July 23, 1905, at Thackerville, Indian Territory, and died June 7, 1999, at Lake Country Manor Nursing Home in Marietta at the age of 93. She was the daughter of Walter and Annie Adair Gatlin.
A resident of Thackerville most of her life, she married James H. "Jim" Lee at Thackerville in 1933. Mrs. Lee was a homemaker and the oldest living member of the First Baptist Church of Thackerville.
She is survived by a brother, Ed "Coot" Foster of Thackerville; two grandchildren and their spouses, Rita and Lonnie Foster and Sandy and Carl Ellis; eight great-grandchildren, Tina and Jonny Hickman, Dana and Damon Frazier, David H. Cave, Melynda Vanderven, Kristi Matlock, Tonya Mills, Karen Woodall and Cody Sutton; 10 great-great-grandchildren and one great-great-great-grandson.
Mrs. Lee was preceded in death by her husband on May 25, 1986; a daughter, Jean Bourland; a grandson, William Mills; a great-great-grandson, James Cummins; and several brothers and sisters.
Interment was in the New Resthaven Cemetery, Gainesville, Texas, directed by Kennedy Funeral Home. Pallbearers were David Dewbre, Damon Frazier, Michael J. Dewbre, Jonny Hickman, Jerimiah Cummins and Gary Reed.