Obit of Burch, Alice Carolyn (Ayling) - Washington County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Terri     16 Oct 2005
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Surnames: Burch, Ayling, Oman, Milam, Metcalf, Miller

from 2-28-2003 Examiner Enterprise

Alice C. Burch

Mrs. Alice Carolyn (Ayling) Burch, 72, wife of Billy Dean "Bill" Burch, 
died at 7:50 a.m. on Thursday in the Emergency Room of the Jane Phillips 
Memorial Medical Center where she was rushed following a sudden illness 
suffered at her rural Ochelata home.

Mrs. Burch will lie in state in the Drawing Rooms of The Arnold Moore 
Funeral Residence where friends may call for their visitation until Monday 
evening. Private family final rites will be directed by The Arnold Moore 
Funeral Service.

Alice Carolyn Ayling was born on February 5, 1931 at Iola, Kansas in Allen 
County. She was the daughter of the late Harry Milton and Mary Dorothy 
(Oman) Ayling. During her youth, she moved to Tulsa, Okla. with her family 
members where she was reared and received her education, graduating with 
the Senior Class of 1949 from the Will Rogers High School. She and Billy 
Dean Burch were married in December of 1973 in Bartlesville and they made 
their first home here. Mrs. Burch was employed by National Zinc Co., was 
office manager for Dr. James R. Young and was retired from the Phillips 
Petroleum Co. in 1985. Mr. Burch has been active in local residential and 
commercial painting until his retirement in 2002. Since that time, Mr. and 
Mrs. Burch continued living in the rural Ochelata community.

Surviving are her husband, Billy Dean "Bill" Burch, of the rural Ochelata 
home; one son, Brent R. Milam, Tulsa, Okla.; one grandson, Benjamin "Ben" 
Milam and one granddaughter, Ali Metcalf, both of rural Ochelata, Okla.; 
one sister, Mrs. Dorothy "Dodie" Miller, Bartlesville and one brother, 
Gene Ayling, Estero, Florida; one nephew, Michael Miller, Bartlesville and 
two nieces Ms. Leslye Tipton, Tulsa, Okla. and Ms. Melissa Miller, Moore, 
Okla. She was preceded in death by her father; mother; and one daughter, 
Glinda Milam.
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