Obit of Ola Mare Browning (b655) - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandy Carter 05 Jul 2003 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== The Chickasha Express-Star 18 May 2003 OLA MAE BROWNING Funeral service for Ola Mare Browning, age 91, of Amber, will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, May 19, 2003, at the Amber Baptist Church. Browning was born March 31, 1912, and died May 16, 2003. Services are under the direction of McRay Funeral Home. ========== The Chickasha Express-Star 19 May 2003 OLA MAE BROWNING Funeral service for Ola Mae Browning, age 91, of Amber, was held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, May 19, 2003, at the Amber First Baptist Church. Rev. Dean Guthrie and Rev. Bob Gordon officiated. Ola Mae was born the daughter of Andrew Jackson Davis and Mary Jane Jacobs Davis on March 31, 1912, on Umpire, Arkansas. She died on Friday, May 16, 2003, in Chickasha, Oklahoma. Ola grew up in Howard County, Texas, and Briscoe County, Texas. She graduated from high school at Dierks, Arkansas. She married Osborne R. Browning in Nashville, Arkansas, on December 6, 1932. After they married, O. R. and Ola lived and farmed in Hall and Briscoe Counties, in Texas. They moved to Grady County, Oklahoma, in 1940, and have lived and farmed in the Amber and Pocasset communities since that time. Ola, a lifetime Baptist, has been a member of the First Baptist Church, Amber, since 1952. She taught Sunday School and Vacation Bible School for several years. She enjoyed grandchildren, family gatherings, cooking for family, dominoes, and other games with family and many friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, O. R., her parents, brothers, Harvey and Homer Davis, and one sister, Carolyn Dyer. Survivors include: son and wife: Jerry and Loraine Browning of Wichita, KS; daughter and husband: Barbara and Paul Hale of Shawnee, OK; son and wife: Jim and Shirley Browning of Amber; son and wife: Larry Browning and Vicky Hock of Austin, TX; sister: Oleta Stone of Nashville, Ark.; ten grandchildren: Steve Hale and wife Kay Lynn of Norman, OK, Cheryl Savage and husband Tom of Wichita, KS, Sheri Rhodes and husband Greg of Shawnee, OK, Ray Browning and wife Sara of Leawood, KS, Kim Schubert and husband John of Forney, TX, Andrew Browning of Washington, DC, Debbie Paniaguas and husband Bob of Coral Springs, FL, Susan Browning of Oklahoma City, OK, Benjamin Browning of Arlington, TX, and Michelle Lindsey of Pocasset; nine great grandchildren: Zachary Grinnell, Aaron Loucks, Brittany Callahan, Madison Grinnell, Reagan Rhodes, Victoria Hale, Tyler Schubert, Cassidy Schubert, Ryan Paniaguas; special friend: Dee Basler; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins. Interment was in the Amber Cemetery. Service was under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html