Sandra Lou Purvis
Born: November 24, 1946
Died: December 23, 2015
Sandra "Sandy" Purvis was born in Pascagoula, Mississippi on November 24, 1946 to Mamie L. Cooper (née Dickerson) and Ollis Franklin Cooper. She graduated Lucedale High School in Lucedale, Mississippi in 1964 and attended various colleges until arriving in Guthrie, Oklahoma and graduating from Langston University in 1968 as the first white female to do so. Sandy received her Bachelor’s degree in Education and began her teaching career in Guthrie in 1968 teaching 1st grade at Faver. She received her Master’s degree in Reading from Oklahoma State University in 1974. Sandy married Thomas H. Purvis of Lucedale, Mississippi and left Guthrie; teaching wherever he was stationed: Lawton, Key West, and Fort Bragg. Upon his discharge, Sandy returned to Guthrie and returned to teaching at the high school and then later the junior high. She retired in 2008 with almost 40 years of teaching, 35 of it in Guthrie. Sandy was a lover of books, flowers, family, friends, and church.
She is survived by her two children: Price, his wife Mary, and grandson Benson of Guthrie, and Shawn and his wife Melissa “Missy” of Colmesneil, Texas; her brother, Michael Lee Cooper of Guthrie; her sister, Kim Slothower Lewis and her husband Lonzo, of Woodville, Texas; her nieces: Lora Leigh Robinson and husband Brad of Edmond and their family; Scarlett Gilkison and her husband Rob of Davenport, Oklahoma and their family; and Terra Rose Arnold of Sapulpa, Oklahoma and her family.
She was preceded in death by her father and mother.
Interment will be held at 2:00 PM, Monday, December 28, 2015 at Summit View Cemetery. A memorial service will be held at 10:00 AM, Saturday, January 23, 2016 at First United Presbyterian Church with Pastor Scott Foster officiating. Services are under the direction of Smith-Gallo Funeral Home, Guthrie.
Visitation will be held Monday, December 28th with the family receiving guests between 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM
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