NAME: DORETHA (LOLLIS) ALEXANDER, AGE 89, A LONGTIME ATOKA AREA RESIDENT.

BORN: JUNE 8, 1912 IN ATOKA, OKLAHOMA TO WILLIAM PRINCETON AND AMY (GOODE) LOLLIS. PASSED AWAY: SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2001 AT HER RESIDENCE. AGE: 89 YEARS 5 MONTHS AND 10 DAYS EDUCATION: DORETHA ATTENDED GRADE SCHOOL AT DUNBAR IN ATOKA AND GRADUATED FROM BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL IN TULSA. SHE GRADUATED FROM LANGSTON UNIVERSITY WITH A BACHELOR DEGREE AND OKLAHOMA UNIVERSITY IN 1957 WITH A MASTERS DEGREE. MARRIED: GEORGE DOUGLAS G. D. ALEXANDER ON AUGUST 23, 1937 AT ATOKA, OK.. OCCUPATION: RETIRED SCHOOL TEACHER. DORETHA TAUGHT OVER 40 YEARS IN LEWISVILLE, TX AND EUFAULA , OK. CHURCH AFFILIATION: AS A CHILD SHE BECAME A MEMBER OF THE BETHEL A M E CHURCH, WHILE LIVING IN TULSA SHE ATTENDED VERNON A M E CHURCH AND WAS A LONGTIME MEMBER OF DICKERSON A M E CHURCH IN EUFAULA. AFTER MOVING BACK TO ATOKA SHE MOVED HER MEMBERSHIP BACK TO BETHEL A M E CHURCH. SHE WAS VERY ACTIVE IN HER CHURCH, SERVING AS STEWARD, TRUSTEE, THE WOMEN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY, AND THE LAY ORGANIZATION, LOCAL, DISTRICT, AND CONFERENCE. SHE WAS A MEMBER OF THE NATIONAL WOMEN'S FEDERATED CLUB, THE ATOKA COUNTY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION AND R.S.V.P. PROGRAM SURVIVED BY BROTHER: LESTER N. LOLLIS OF SACRAMENTO, CA. NIECES: IDA MCJUNKINS AND HUSBAND LABRON OF ATOKA, OK. BERNADINE AND DON PERKINS OF ATOKA, OK. NEPHEWS: MAURICE M. COLBERT OF TULSA, OK. MILTON BROWN, JR. AND WIFE BETTY OF SHERMAN, TX. LONNIE JOHNSON AND WIFE GRACE OF OKLAHOMA CITY. GREAT NEPHEWS: RONALD DOUGLAS AND WIFE KATHY OF HOUSTON, TX. DONALD DOUGLAS AND WIFE GAIL OF DENISON, TX. ROBERT DOUGLAS AND WIFE CHRIS OF DURANT, OK. TAFARI AND MAURICE J. COLBERT OF TULSA, OK LONNIE JOHNSON JR. OF OKLAHOMA CITY GREAT NIECES: BEVRA MERRITT AND HUSBAND JAY OF OKLAHOMA CITY. DONNA JOHNSON OF OKLAHOMA CITY. PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HUSBAND: G. D. ALEXANDER. PARENTS: WILLIAM AND AMY LOLLIS.

DATE OF SERVICES: WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2001 AT 10:00 A.M. PLACE OF SERVICES: BROWN'S FUNERAL CHAPEL ~ ATOKA, OK INTERMENT: GREEN HILL CEMETERY ~ ATOKA, OK. OFFICIATING: REV. LONNIE JOHNSON. CASKETBEARERS: RONALD DOUGLAS, DONALD DOUGLAS, ROBERT DOUGLAS, SEAN DOUGLAS, MAURICE COLBERT, MILTON BROWN. HONORARY CASKETBEARERS: LABRON MCJUNKINS, ORLIN HILL, EDGAR VINSON, CARL BROWN. FLOWER BEARERS: ERMA WOODARD, ELIZABETH FRAZIER, BILLIE JACKSON, JANIE JACKSON, EVELYN VINSON.