Obit of Foreman, Dorris - Canadian County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 01 Apr 2007 Return to Canadian County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/canadian/canadian.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Llano Cemetery--Amarillo TX Dorris Foreman Dorris Foreman, 95, of Amarillo died Monday, Sept. 8, 2003. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in St. Paul United Methodist Church Chapel. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery by Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel, Fifth Avenue and Pierce Street. Mrs. Foreman was born April 17, 1908, in Munday. She graduated from Texas State College for Women in Denton with a bachelor's and master's degree in education in 1930. She taught school in Cross Plains, where she met her future husband. Mrs. Foreman married L.D. "Sandy" Foreman on Aug. 9, 1936, in El Reno, Okla. Sandy and Dorris moved to Amarillo in 1945 after World War II ended. Dorris taught physical education in the Amarillo school system for 22 years. She and Sandy moved to Aurora, Colo., in 1967, where she taught school until her retirement in 1973. They moved to Mission where they lived for two years. She and her husband returned to Amarillo in 1975. She was an active member of St. Paul United Methodist Church, where she served on many committees and taught Sunday school. She was a past matron and charter 50-year member of the A.E. Shirley Chapter of Order of the Eastern Star. She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents, Thomas and Rose Durham; two brothers, Jack and Wren Durham; three sisters, Blanche Hamm, Tommie Echols and Nell Durham; and a nephew, Mike Echols. Survivors include a brother, Neil Durham of Idalou; seven nieces, Judy Bray of Amarillo, Ray Anne Hamm of Colorado City, Bettye Joyce Treichak of Citrus Heights, Calif., Nan Beatty of Fairbanks, Alaska, Dana Boyd of Overland, Kan., Penny Jones of Mabank and Lynda Durham of Lubbock; three nephews, Jack Durham of Montrose, Colo., Alan Hamm of Bedford and Robert Echols of Albany; numerous great-nieces and nephews; and several great-great-nieces and nephews. The family suggests memorials be to St. Paul United Methodist Church Youth Fund. Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 9, 2003 --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Canadian County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/canadian/canadian.html