Dorothy Jean (Carnes) Calvert
Arp 7, 1927 - Dec 13, 2016
Posted by Janet Laubhan Flickinger

http://www.havenbrookfuneralhome.com/

Dorothy Jean Calvert left her beloved husband of 69 years, Dr. Floyd (Cal) Calvert, her children, Sherry, Hallie, Paula, Cary (and Maria), Wendy (and Richard), her thirteen grandchildren and fourteen great-grandchildren, on Tuesday, December 13, 2016, to joyfully meet her Lord and Savior Jesus and to join a large and beloved family of which she was the last survivor.  
 
Jean was a dust bowl/great depression child, born in rural Oklahoma near Olustee on April 7, 1927, the tenth child of John and Johnnie (Witt) Carnes of Quitman, Arkansas.
 
Her favorite childhood times were spent on a farm in Fargo, Oklahoma, at the Witt family farmhouse in Quitman, Arkansas, and one exciting year in Los Angeles, California, to which her and her mother rode the Santa Fe train to follow her sisters to where they found jobs in California during the depression. It was here she fell in love with the ocean beaches. She was nine.
 
She graduated from Sayre High School in May of 1946. She then went to college at Southwestern in Weatherford where she earned a Cosmetology degree.
She met Cal when he returned from serving in the army during WWII on a drugstore, soda pop, date set up by friends in Mountain View, Oklahoma, beginning a love that lasted a lifetime.
 
They were married in Wheeler, Texas, on November 25, 1947. Floyd and Jean lived in Sooner City on the University of Oklahoma South Campus in the prefabricated Quads set up for all the ‘GI Bill’ students.
 
They enjoyed family summer trips all over the United States, the favorites being trips to visit the great western National Parks. Their favorite trip was taken when their son Cary suggested a cruise be taken for their 35th wedding anniversary. They took the Holland America’s Rotterdam, a large ocean liner, to Alaska.  
 
Viewing is Thursday, December 15 at Havenbrook Funeral Home from 3:00 to 8:00 pm.  Funeral will be at Bethel Baptist Church at 1:00 pm on Friday, December 16, with graveside services to follow at I.O.O.F. Cemetery.
 
Mother loved her family, her husband, her children and grandchildren, her bible, painting and photography, ocean beaches, sunshine and flowers. The family will accept flowers for her service Friday.