Obit of Dorman, Lillie 'Tye' Flavilla Richey (aaa) - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 15 Oct 2004 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 ===================================================================== ::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK Duncan Banner 4 Mar 2004 Lillie 'Tye' F. Dorman RUSH SPRINGS — Service for Lillie "Tye" F. Dorman, 97, of Rush Springs, who died Wednesday, March 3, 2004, in Marlow, is pending with Callaway- Smith-Cobb Chapel in Rush Springs. ========= Duncan Banner 5 Mar 2004 Lillie 'Tye' Flavilla Richey Dorman RUSH SPRINGS — Service for Lillie "Tye" Flavilla Richey Dorman, 97, of Rush Springs, who died Wednesday, March 3, 2004, in Marlow, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in the Church of Christ in Rush Springs with Daryn, Arlyn and Bryan Brantley officiating. ========= Rush Springs Gazette 11 Mar 2004 Lillie Flavilla "Tye" Dorman Lillie Flavilla "Tye" Dorman, 97, of Rush Springs died Wednesday, March 3, 2004, in Marlow. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 6, in the Church of Christ in Rush Springs with Daryn Brantley, Bryan Brantley and Arlyn Brantley officiating. Burial was in Rush Springs Cemetery, Rush Springs under the direction of Callaway-Smith-Cobb Funeral Home. Mrs Dorman was born April 4, 1906 in Tillman County, Oklahoma Territory, the daughter of Swannie Richey and Zora Vanscoder Richey. She and Rufus Dorman were married February 19, 1929 in Grady County, Okla. Tye came by train to the Norge community in Grady County in 1913 with her family. They moved to the Agawam community in 1918. It was while playing some great baseball at Agawam School that she earned her nickname "Tye", after the famous ballplayer Ty Cobb. Tye graduated from Ninnekah High School in 1926. Following graduation, she worked for a time at the Kress Variety Store in downtown Chickasha. She has lived in Rush Springs since 1929. She attended every Watermelon Festival from 1940 until 2003 when a broken hip kept her from attending. She received the Pioneer Award from the Rush Springs Retail Merchants in 1997. She was a member of the Bon Temps Club for over 50 years and was the oldest member of the Church of Christ in Rush Springs. She was a homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; three sons, Terrell Dorman and wife Imogene; Darrell Dorman; and infant son, Connie Dean; stepson, Randall Dorman and wife Betty; grandson, Randall Dorman Jr.; great grandson, Bradley Dillon Brantley; brother Leslie Richey; sister, Rena Compton; and one niece, Ruby Emerick. Survivors include, daughter, Annys Brantley and Larry of Rush Springs, Okla.; daughter-in-law, Lottie Dorman of Ponca City, Okla.;four grandsons, Dr Gary Dorman of Ponca City, Okla., Daryn Brantley of Rush SPrings, Okla.,Bryan Brantley of Apache Okla., and Arlyn Brantley of Rush Springs, Okla.; four granddaughters, Linda Dorman of Tulsa, Okla., Marisa Brantley of Rush Springs, Okla., Mary Lou Dorman of Hobbs, N.M., and Terre Gene Dorman of California; six great grandchildren, Whitney Dorman of Ponca City, Okla., Andrew Dorman of Ponca City, Okla., Kelly Gale of Tulsa, Okla., Blair Brantley of Rush Springs, Okla., Tommy Dodson of Hobbs, N.M. and Heather Payne of Hobbs, N.M.; two sisters, Arvilla Duke of Chickasha Okla., and Alice Robertson of Rush Springs, Okla.; niece Myra Lois Fitch of San Antonio, Texas and three nephews, Woody Robertson of Rush Springs, Okla., Leonard Richey of Rhome, Texas and Rondal Compton of Lawton, Okla. Pallbearers were Gary Dorman, Daryn Brantley, Bryan Brantley, Arlyn Brantley, Leonard Richey, Rondal Compton, and Woody Robertson. Memorials may be made to the Tipton Children's Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html