Obit of D W 'Worley' Linville (l514) - Bryan County, Oklahoma Submitted by: C Colston 18 Nov 2003 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm ========================================================================== 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. Survivors omitted. Sunday, Novembe 2, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat D. W. ‘Worley’ Linville, 92 Services are pending with Coffey-Murray Funeral Home for D. W. ‘Worley’ Linville, 92, Durant, who died Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003, at his residence. =========== Monday, November 3, 2003 Durant Daily Democrat D. W. ‘Worley’ Linville, 92 A service will be 2 p.m. Tuesday at Fairview Baptist Church for D. W. ‘Worley’ Linville, Durant, who passed peacefully from this life in the early morning hours of Saturday, Nov. 1, 2003. The Revs. Darrell Edwards and Carrell Hooper will officiate. He slipped quietly into heaven at his home surrounded by loved ones after complications arose from an injury he obtained doing one of the things he loved most which was checking his cattle on his four-wheeler. D.W. was 92 years, 11 months, five days young. Born Nov. 27, 1910, to W. W. and Hoppie (Hellums) Linville, at Charlie, Texas, he married Lorene Virginia Caddell on March 29, 1935. As a young boy, he enjoyed ranching with his father in Wagon Mound, New Mexico. Being a rancher all his life, he ranched in Wichita County, Grayson County and Jack County, Texas, before finally settling in the Cobb community of Bryan County, Oklahoma, in 1946. Being of the Baptist faith, he was saved in 1951 and was an active member of the Fairview Baptist Church. Having once served as worshipful master, D. W. was a member of the George R. Reeves Masonic Lodge of Pottsboro, Texas, and was the oldest member, having served 65 years. He was a past president of the Bryan County Farm Bureau and also a Cobb school board member. Preceding him in death were his wife, parents, two brothers, two sisters and a grandson, Scott Christopher Smith. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery with pallbearers Robert Self, Jim Levins, Johnny Corbin, Barnett Lilly, Bud Davis, Benny Phelps, Jim Richardson and J. W. Hicks. Coffey-Murray Funeral Home is handling arrangements. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm