Pawnee County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  Dorothy Ruth Morgan

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Dorothy Ruth Morgan
October 26, 1922 - June 19, 2002

Birthplace:   Henryetta, Oklahoma
Resided In:   Cleveland Oklahoma
Funeral Home:   Chapman-Black Funeral Home, Inc. 
Visitation:   June 23, 2002 
Service:   June 24, 2002 
Cemetery:   Woodland Cemetery 


Dorothy Ruth Morgan, lifelong Cleveland resident, passed away Wednesday, 
June 19, 2002 at the Cushing Regional Hospital, at the age of seventy-nine 
years, seven months and twenty-three days.

Dorothy Ruth was born October 26, 1922 in Henryetta, Oklahoma. She was the 
daughter of Clyde Albin and Ruth K. Morgan. She moved with her family at 
the age of two to Cleveland where she was raised and attended school.  
Dorothy Ruth graduated from Cleveland High School in 1940.

Shortly after graduation, Dorothy Ruth attended business college in Tulsa 
for a while before accepting employment with an insurance company. During 
World War II she worked for the United States Army Corps of Engineers.  
After the war, she returned to Cleveland when she began working for the 
Indian Electric Cooperative. A job offer with a physician's office moved 
her to Bartlesville in 1949. Dorothy Ruth had worked in Bartlesville for a 
couple of years when her brother, James R. Morgan was killed in an 
automobile accident and she returned to Cleveland to be near her parents.  
Upon her return to Cleveland she went back to work for the Indian Electric 
Cooperative.  She served as a work order clerk for the IEC for nearly 
thirty-six years before retiring in 1988.

Dorothy Ruth was a longtime member of the First United Methodist Church 
where she served in numerous capacities including Sunday school teacher. 
In addition to her brother, she was preceded in death by her parents.

Dorothy Ruth is survived by her sister and her husband, Barbara and 
William R. Gowan, Durham, North Carolina;  three nieces, Jennifer Griffin, 
Hillsboro, North Carolina, Jan Elizabeth Gowan, Chapel Hill, North 
Carolina,  Amy R. Gowan Bryant, Mebane, North Carolina;  three great 
nieces,  and one great nephew.

Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Monday, June 24, 2002 at the 
First United Methodist Church with Rev. Jerry Abbott officiating.  Burial 
was at the Woodland Cemetery under the direction of the Chapman-Black 
Funeral Home.

''Visit an online obituary and guestbook for Dorothy Ruth Morgan at 
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