Doryce E. Gipson

Marietta Monitor

April 5, 2002, page 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Doryce E. Gipson, 72, of Burneyville, were held at 2 p.m. Friday, March 29, in the Jimtown Baptist Church with Terry Carlile, pastor of Disciple's Fellowship Baptist Church, Texarkana, Texas, officiating.

Mrs. Gipson was born April 14, 1929, at Enville, the daughter of William J. and Letha Willis Hicks. She died Wednesday, March 27, 2002, in Presbyterian Towers Medical Center, Oklahoma City.

A resident of Love County most of her life, she and Floyd M. Gipson, Jr. were married on June 8, 1946, at Gainesville, Texas. Mrs. Gipson attended school at Enville and later in life was a proud graduate of the Love County GED program. She was an active member of the Jimtown Baptist Church and was greatly loved and will be sorely missed by all who knew her. All of our hearts have been touched by this woman. Her teaching and her loving eyes will be instilled in our hearts and souls forever. Mom (Grandmother) will be deeply missed but never - ever forgotten. The gift of God's love is spelled: "M-O-T-H-E-R."

Survivors include three sons and daughters-in-law, Keith Alan Gipson of Blanchard, Michael Steve and Wanda Gipson of Texarkana, Texas, and Curtis and Tisch Gipson of Edmond; two sisters, Ruby Wilcoxson of Galveston, Texas and Marjorie Swope of Pearland, Texas; two sisters-in-law, Wilie Dean Reed of Leon and Sharon Hartless of Marietta; a brother-in-law, Alan Wayne Gipson of Mustang; three grandchildren, Latonya Gipson, Diana Gipson and Tessa Gipson; and a special lifelong friend, Skeet Hicks of Jimtown.

Mrs. Gipson was preceded in death by her mother, Letha Hicks Stracner in 1996; and her beloved husband, Floyd M. Gipson, Jr. on January 14, 2000.

Serving as pallbearers were Garland Gipson, Charles Campbell, Duane Hicks, H.T. Hicks, Steve Isom and Chris Hartless. Honorary pallbearers were Weldon Hicks, Alvie Reed, Joe Hartless, Myron Hicks, Wayne Gipson and Leon Carter.

Interment was in the Leon Cemetery, under the direction of Flanagan-Watts Funeral Home, Marietta.

Source: Marietta Monitor, Love County, April 5, 2002, page 4. This obituary included a picture of this lovely woman.