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Funeral service for Doris Opal Shelburne, 94, of Fairview, will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Monday, June 6, 2022, at the Cheyenne Valley Methodist Church, Cheyenne Valley, Oklahoma.
Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.
Funeral service for Doris Opal Shelburne, 94, of Fairview will be held at 10:30 am, on Monday, June 6, 2022 at the Cheyenne Valley Methodist Church, Cheyenne Valley, Oklahoma. Reverend David Gordon officiating. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.
Doris Opal Shelburne was born on July 1, 1927, at the family farm in Cheyenne Valley to Robert Arthur and Ena Inez (Bays) Taylor and passed from this earthly life on June 1, 2022 at the Fairview Fellowship Home in Fairview Oklahoma, one month before her 95th birthday.
Doris grew up on the family farm and attended 12 years at the Cheyenne Valley School. She saw many changes in Cheyenne Valley while she was growing up. Highway 15 was a dirt road from Orienta to Cheyenne Valley Corner then turned north. Sometime in the 1940s they built a road from Cheyenne Valley road to Bouise Junction and was blacktopped at that time. Rural electric was put in and had electric lights to dress by from the eighth grade on. In 1945 she moved to Fairview and went to work at Smiths Drug Store and TG&Y.
Doris met her soon to be husband, Sam Allen Shelburne, at the Deluxe Café. He had just returned home from Iwo Jima and the Marine Corps. They were soon married and to this union was 2 girls, Sherry Kay Shelburne and Pamela Ann Shelburne Ellis.
They were transferred with the oil company to Woodward and survived the 1947 Tornado. They moved as the oil company moved and live in Wyoming, Nebraska, New Mexico, and west Texas. Sam passed away in 1975. Doris moved to Fort Worth for many years and then to Cheyenne Valley in 1982 back to her roots to take care of her aging parents.
She opened the Cheyenne Valley old store. This kept her entertained by the farmers and oil men. It was a culture shock for her after working for the largest construction company in Forth Worth as an accountant. It surprised her when was no longer able to run the Cheyenne Valley Store 1988.
In 2002 her World War II sweetheart, Sheridan Gail Rose, came back to Fairview for a visit. They danced a lot and fell in love again and were married in 2006. They lived in Fairview three months and Sacramento for three months. They traveled a lot. Sheridan passed away in 2009. Her hobbies were sewing, traveling, writing, and dancing.
She is survived by her daughter Pamela Ellis and husband Kenneth of Fairview, four grandchildren; Jami Hogan of Enid, Todd Hogan and Reagen Fox of Cheyenne Valley, Michele Frazier and husband Dee of Fairview, and Jessica Anthony and husband Chad of Clinton, and eight great grandchildren.
Doris was preceded in death by her parents, both husbands, her daughter Sherry Shelburne, two brothers, and one sister.
Memorial donations may be made to the American Legion or the Cheyenne Valley Methodist Church with the Fairview Funeral Home acting as custodians of the funds.
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