ROY LAVERN THORNBURGH

© Enid News and Eagle

June 9, 2010

Submitted by Jo Aguirre

ROY LAVERN THORNBURGH

ENID — A funeral service for Roy Lavern Thornburgh, 91, will be 10 a.m. Thursday, June 10, 2010, at Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. John McLemore, Rev. Don Johnson and Rev. Dan O’Daniel officiating. Private family burial will be in Karoma Cemetery, near Goltry.

Vern was born to Ivan Wesley and Wilma (Ackley) Thornburgh on December 5, 1918, in Goltry and died Monday, June 7, 2010, in Enid.

He was raised by aunts and uncles from the age of five until graduating from Jet High School in 1936. After graduation he attended Tonkawa College. He began hauling grain for William Metcalf.

On July 28, 1940, he married Clara Berniece Metcalf. They farmed and ranched on the Thornburgh and Metcalf homesteads near Jet for 34 years, which was the joy of his life. In 1974 they moved to Enid, where he worked for American Electric for 15 years and built apartments for Larry Newman. Vern later worked at Keithly’s Nursery, Fred’s Tree Farm and then Plants A’ Plenty until he was 88 years old. Vern volunteered at St. Mary’s for five years. He was a member of Jet Christian Church from 1943 to 1974, where he served as an elder. Vern and Berniece then transferred their membership to Enid Central Christian Church.

Vern is survived by two daughters, Christie Jackson (Tim) of Portland, Ore., and Cathie Whipkey (Harold) of Higgins, Texas; son, Patrick Thornburgh (Joyce) of Helena; 10 grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; two great-great-grandchildren; five sisters, Helen Davenport, Betty Talley, Patsy Talley, Wilma Bishop and Billie Burns, all of Bentonville, Ark.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Berniece, (June 21, 2007); four brothers, Wayne and Ivan Wesley Thornburgh and Adrian and Jim Talley; and sister, Jean Benson.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Central Christian Church Caregivers.

Condolences may be made online at www.andersonburris .com.

(Submitted by family)
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