Obit of Avis (Anderson) Etzel (e324) - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: C Colston 26 Sep 2003 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Transcriber Notice: Please note that I am only transcribing this information and do not have any affiliation with this family. Friday, August 22, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat Avis (Anderson) Etzel, 90 A service will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Highland Cemetery Chapel for Avis (Anderson) Etzel, 90, Durant, who died Thursday, Aug. 21, 2003, at King’s Daughters and Sons Nursing Home. Billy Joe Garner will officiate. She was born Monday, May 26, 1913, in Roberta to Newman Clark ‘Doc’ and Sarah Valeria (Thomas) Anderson. She married Dee Richard Etzel May 3, 1936, in Durant. She lived in Durant as a child and them moved away. She returned to Durant in the late 1970s from Houston, Texas. She was a homemaker and member of the Durant First Baptist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents in 1966; husband June 18, 1991; son Michael Gordon Etzel Sept. 5, 2000, and sisters Jane Hamm McCoy, Inez A. James and Normarie Patton. She is survived by her granddaughters Michelle Etzel, Bradenton, Fla., and Judy Ann Etzel, Tampa, Fla.; cousins Billy Joe Garner, Durant, and Steven T. Garner, Shawnee; numerous other cousins; loving staff at King’s Daughters and Sons Nursing Home, and special caregivers at Hospice Center of Durant. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home is handling arrangements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.html