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Fairlawn Cemetery
Grady County, Oklahoma



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Orville Marlyn Kirksey
Mildred Ann [O'Briant] Kirksey
Lucille "Lucy" Kirksey
Orville Eugene "Bub" Kirksey


Obituary
Fairlawn Cemetery
Grady County, Oklahoma

Submitted by: Sandi Carter

© The Chickasha Express-Star
Chickasha, Oklahoma
July 29, 2004

Orville Marlyn Kirksey
December 24, 1907 ~ July 28, 2004


Funeral services for Orville Kirksey, 96, of Chickasha, Okla., are pending with McRay Funeral Home.

Orville Kirksey was born December 24, 1907, and died on Wednesday, July 28, 2004.

© The Chickasha Express-Star
Chickasha, Oklahoma
July 30, 2004

Orville Marlyn Kirksey
December 24, 1907 ~ July 28, 2004


Funeral service for Orville Marlyn Kirksey, age 96, of Chickasha, Oklahoma, will be held at 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, July 31, 2004, in the McRay Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Don Gibson will officiate, and Rev. Chuck Fletcher will assist.

Orville Marlyn Kirksey was born the son of Forrest Marlyn Kirksey and Nola A. Franklin Kirksey on December 24, 1907, in Jonesboro, Arkansas. He died on July 28, 2004, in Chickasha, Oklahoma.

He married Mildred Ann O'Briant on March 1, 1930, in Binger, Oklahoma.

At the age of eleven, Orville moved to the Chickasha area. He worked for the Rock Island Railroad for several years, then went into farming. Orville farmed in the Meridian community for approximately twenty years. Orville owned and operated TeePee Service Station for forty years.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister, Exie Rector, his wife, Mildred A. O'Briant Kirksey, one daughter, Lucille, and one son, Eugene "Bub" Kirksey.

Survivors include his daughter, Louise Lamb of Chickasha; granddaughter, Vickie Van Hooser of Edmond; granddaughter and husband, Donna and Dale DeKinder of Alexandria, Virginia; grandson and wife, Ricky and Tammi Bailey of Ninnekah; granddaughter and husband, Cheryl and Ben Wittington of San Clemente, California; grandson and wife, Kenneth and Joyce Kirksey of Chickasha; grandson and wife, Alan and Janice Kirksey of Duncan; granddaughter, Kay Kirksey of Midwest City; daughter-in-law, Wilma Kirksey of Chickasha; 14 great grandchildren; two great great grandchildren.

Interment will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home.

There will be no viewing at the service.


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