Doris Beatrice OWENS

Notes:

CENSUS RECORDS

1930 Census
Name: Doris Owens
Birth Year: abt 1927 [abt 1928]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter (Child)
Home in 1930: Greenville, Hunt, Texas
Street address: Henry
House Number in Cities or Towns: 2816
Father's Birthplace: Virginia
Mother's Birthplace: Texas
Household Members:
William K Owens 49
Agnes V Owens 42
Lois Owens 14
Bertena Owens 12
Bessie Owens 7
Doris Owens 3 years 2 months

1940 Census
Name: Doris Owens
Age: 15
Estimated birth year: abt 1925
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birthplace: Texas
Marital Status: Single
Relation to Head of House: Daughter (Child)
Home in 1940: Greenville, Hunt, Texas
Street: Wright Street
House Number: 1722
Inferred Residence in 1935: Greenville, Hunt, Texas
Residence in 1935: Same House
Household Members:
Kent Owens 58
Agnes Owens 52
Bertena Owens 22
Bessie Owens 17
Doris Owens 15

OBITUARY

From Find A Grave

March 31, 2009

Doris Purkey

Doris Purkey, 83, of Garland died March 28, 2009, at Doctors Hospital in Dallas. Services are at 1:30 p.m. today in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home chapel with interment following at Memoryland Memorial Park. Rev. Royce Litchfield will officiate.

Mrs. Purkey was born April 28, 1925, in Merit to Kent and Agnes Stinebaugh Owens. On Oct. 13, 1940, she married Wayne Purkey in Caddo Mills. She was a homemaker and was a member of the Baptist faith.

Her survivors include daughters Beverly Youker and husband Steve of Garland and Linda Youngblood and husband Corbin of Mesquite; two sisters, Bertena Dorman of Greenville and Mildred Cauble of Campbell; grandsons Vince Youngblood of Garland and Michael Youngblood of McKinney; granddaughters Susan Wenzel of Mesquite and Stacy Wells of Garland; great-granddaughters Kourtnee Youngblood of McKinney and Kayla Youngblood of Mesquite; a brother-in-law, Lester Purkey and wife Raye of Arkansas; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; daughter Betty Purkey; sisters Lois Morris, Elsie Mae Smith and Bessie Thulis; and brothers Johnny, Raymond and Bill Owens.

Birth:
Social Security Death Index
Name: Doris Beatrice Purkey
Last Residence: 75043 Garland, Dallas, Texas
BORN: 28 Apr 1925
Died: 28 Mar 2009
State (Year) SSN issued: Texas (1971)

Buried:
Grave location, obituary, portrait and tombstone photo:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=24481678&ref=acom
Garden of Meditation (West of Sidewalk) in Memoryland Memorial Park Cemetery

Doris married Wayne P. Purkey. Wayne was born 02 Jul 1919; died 05 May 1989, Dallas Co. TX; was buried , Memoryland Memorial Park, Greenville, Hunt Co. TX. [Group Sheet]

Beverly married Steve Youker. [Group Sheet]

Linda married Corbin Youngblood. [Group Sheet]