Beckham Co. - Obit for Deborah Jean McKay Long

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Deborah Jean McKay Long: 1956-2005

Deborah Jean McKay Long

GUYMON, Okla. - Deborah Jean McKay Long, 49, died Sunday, Nov. 20, 2005.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Victory Memorial United Methodist Church
with the Rev. Michael Burkett and the Rev. Katie Brown officiating. Burial
will be in Elmhurst Cemetery by Henson-Novak Funeral Directors.

The daughter of Agnes Quattlebaum McKay and Billy Ray McKay, Mrs. Long was
born Nov. 16, 1956, in Elk City. Debbie graduated from Guymon High School in
1975 and graduated from the University of Oklahoma with a music education
degree in 1979. She was united in marriage to Steve Long on Aug. 18, 1977, in
Guymon. She was an active and giving member of her church and community. She
shared her talents by teaching junior high Sunday school, singing in the choir
and ringing and leading bell choirs at Victory Memorial United Methodist
Church and was active in United Methodist Women. Debbie also gave to the
community. She had remained involved in school volunteering, served on the
American Red Cross board and was a member of P.E.O., Chapter FQ. Debbie had
recently been honored as 2005 Beta Sigma Phi Woman of the Year. She was also a
loving and treasured daughter, wife, mother and friend.

She was preceded in death by her father in 2001 and a brother-in-law, Homer
Phillip Long in 1989.

Survivors include her husband; two children, Lindsey Elizabeth Long of Norman
and Jacob Ross Long of Oklahoma City; her mother, Agnes Wing of Guymon; a
brother and family, Billy Dean McKay and Angela Maw and Ainsley, Drew and
Meredith McKay, all of Marietta, Ga.; her mother-in-law and father-in-law,
Mary and David Long of Guymon; a sister-in-law, Lisa Gordon and husband,
Douglas, of Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., and children, Alissa and Adam Gordon; and
a brother-in-law, Pat Long of Dallas and children, David, Sally and Patrick
Long.

The family suggests memorials be to Victory Memorial United Methodist Church
for the music and bell choirs, and may be sent in care of the funeral home,
P.O. Box 1306, Guymon, OK 73942.