Obit.Cherokee County,OK LAYNE, Laveta Gay (Horton)
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Posted by Terrill White on 14Nov2005 terrillwhite1978@aol.com
Laveta Gay Horton Layne

Services for Laveta Gay Layne will be 2 p.m., Tuesday, April 5, 2005, at Reed-Culver 
Chapel, with Rev. Gary Dodson officiating. Burial will follow in the Tahlequah City 
Cemetery under the direction of Reed-Culver Funeral Home.

Casketbearers will be Billy Unruh, Mike Vaughn, Earl Finley, Reuben Talley, 
Richard Welch and Jimmy Robinson.

Laveta Gay Layne was born to Otis LeRoy and Hazel (Malaham) Horton of Blackwell, 
Oct. 6, 1941. She lived in Foraker, and later graduated from Shidler High School 
in 1960. Laveta met James Benjamin Layne while he was in the service, and they 
married Nov. 5, 1960. They were based in Kileen, Texas, until 1965 and then 
returned to Tahlequah. Laveta started working at First National Bank in 1967 
and worked there for 25 years. She went from a bookkeeper to assistant vice 
president, and retired in 1992. James retired and they then decided to purchase 
a semi-truck and trailer to travel across country. When she was not traveling, 
Laveta would fish, make wood crafts, work her gardens and plant flowers. She was 
always remodeling something or making some kind of trinkets. We will miss her dearly.

She is preceded in death by her parents.

Laveta is survived by her husband of 44 years, James; one daughter, Teresa Deckard 
and husband Tracy; one son, James Layne II and wife Anita; seven grandchildren, Tera, 
Kasey, Chance, Justin, Sarah, Derrick and James III; and one brother, David Horton.