Ida Mae Doyle © Enid News and Eagle 02-2006 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
The funeral for Ida Mae Doyle, 93, of Perry, formerly of Red Rock, will be 2 p.m. Friday at Brown-Dugger Funeral Home Chapel, Perry. The Rev. Gene Owen will officiate. Burial will be in IOOF Cemetery, Tonkawa. She was born May 9, 1912, at Morrison to Adam and Pearl Fehrenbach Wolf and died Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2006, at Green Valley Nursing Home, Perry.
She attended grade school at Wolf which later was renamed Diamond. She married Olatha “Bus” Edwin Doyle Nov. 22, 1931, in Watchhorn. They farmed for three years before moving to Hutchinson, Kan. They returned to Red Rock in January 1939, and operated a grocery until 1945. She began working at Red Rock Post Office in June 1951, as a substitute clerk. She became postmaster, serving for 36 years before retiring in 1988. She took a correspondence course and obtained her high school diploma in 1958.
She was a member of National Association of Postmasters of the United Sates, First Christian Church, Red Rock, Order of Eastern Star 108 and Zinnia Flower Club.
Surviving are two sons, Vaughn Edwin Doyle of Oklahoma City and Donald Wayne Doyle of Red Rock; three sisters, Mabel Haworth of Broken Arrow, Jessie Newlin of Dallas and Hazel Humbolt of Mulvane, Kan.; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
In addition to her husband, “Bus,” she was preceded in death by five brothers and four sisters.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to the charity of donor’s choice.
Condolences may be made online at www.brown-duggerfuneralhome.com
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