Harmon Co. OK Obit for Doshia (Burge) Whitman	
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 
5/25/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Whitman 

Doshia Whitman, a lifetime resident of Hollis, died Friday at Harmon County 
Memorial Hospital in Hollis at the age of 86. 

Funeral services were held today at the Dodson, Texas Church of Christ. 

Bob Garton and Earl Seigrist officiated. 

Burial followed at the Fairmount Cemetery in Hollis. 

Services were under the direction of Patterson Greer Funeral Home of Hollis. 

She was born Aug. 22, 1915 to Lucinda Gilley Burge and James Homer Burge in 
Goodlett, Texas. 

She married William "Bill" Whitman Oct. 26, 1933 in Hollis. 

She enjoyed sewing and spending time with her grandchildren and great-
grandchildren. 

She spent a large part of her life caring for the elderly. 

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Bill Whitman, seven 
brothers, and one great-grandson. 

She is survived by son Clyde Whitman and his wife Mary of Hollis; six 
grandchildren, Donna Crabb and husband Larry of Hollis, Bill and Dixie Whitman 
of Binger, Robert Whitman of Cache, Phillip Mullins of Altus and Michael Baker 
of Independence, Kan., Stephanie and Rick Jones of Broken Arrow; nine great-
grandchildren, M'kaley M'kenzi, and M'kyla Crabb, Cole Whitman, Jordyn and 
Blakely Whitman, Brandy Brown and Zachary and Tiffany Jones.