Doris was born to Perry and Mary Kendell on January 14, 1928. She was proceeded in death by her husband Franklin L.D. Morgan, her parents, three sisters; Flossie Bledsoe, Hazel Bledsoe, and Alma Seurer and three brothers; Tennis, Earl Lee, and Omer Kendell.
Doris was born in Burbank, OK and moved to Hinton, OK at a very young age. She lived in and around Hinton, OK all her young life. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Hinton. She graduated from Hinton High School in 1946.
Doris married Franklin L.D. Morgan on December 10, 1946 at the First Baptist Church in Hinton, OK. She went to work at the bakery in Hinton where she worked the front sales counter helping customers and in the backroom decorating cakes, icing rolls and wrapping bread.
Doris and L.D. moved to Oklahoma City in 1953 and started their family in 1954. Four sons were born over the next seven years. She was a stay at home mom for many years. Her family was her life. She loved going to the lake, boating and watching her kids and grandkids ski. Doris spent a lot of years having great times at Lake Texoma. Her specialty was having fish fry’s for friends and family. She loved decorating cakes, writing poems and quilting.
Doris went to work at Streets and later went at Sears in 1974 where she retired after 18 years in 1992 at the age of 63. She went back to work at age 73, for her granddaughter at Subway in Yukon, OK in 2001 and then transferred to her store in Piedmont, OK and retired again at the age of 80.
Doris loved her work and had a very wonderful relationship with the customers. She was known to everyone as “Grandma.” Customers still today ask about Grandma. Doris and her late husband L.D. Morgan moved to Piedmont, OK in 1976 and lived there until her last two months of passing. She wanted to tell all her family you were “all very dear to my heart.”
She left behind four sons: Ronnie Morgan and wife Laurie of Piedmont, OK; Randy Morgan of Hinton, OK; Robert Morgan of Piedmont, OK; and Roger Morgan and wife Tammi of Piedmont, OK.
She is survived by 12 Grandchildren: Lisa (Morgan) Strickland and husband Troy and great grandchild Trent Strickland of Piedmont, OK, Mike Morgan and wife Carmen and great grandchildren Lane, Connor and Lexi Morgan of Piedmont, OK, Latitia Morgan and great grandchild Cassidy Lee of Yukon, OK, Jenni (Morgan) Liles and husband Steven, great grandchildren Shellie, Logan, Rielly and Daulton Moudy of Clinton, AR, Eric Morgan and wife Crystal and great grandchildren Payton, Emma, Preston and Fisher Morgan of Shirley, AR, Nick Morgan and wife Kelly, great grandchildren Nylee and Noltee Morgan of Hinton, OK, Cody Morgan and wife Hope, great grandchildren Leighton and Carter Morgan of Hinton, OK, Chance Morgan and wife Mackenzie, great grandchildren Emma Snyder and Lyla Morgan of Piedmont, OK, Brannon Morgan and wife Michelle, great grandchildren Draven, Aesea, Deacon and Adalyne Morgan of Hinton, OK, Lauren (Morgan) Crawford and husband Nick, great grandchild Cora, Ella Crawford of Luther, OK, Racheal Morgan Hacker and husband Jacob Hacker of OKC, OK, Hunter Morgan of Kingston, OK.
She left behind 24 Great Grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews who were very special to her. Love to all of you, Mother, Grandmother, Great-grandmother, Aunt Doris Morgan.
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, December 13 at First Baptist Church in Hinton, OK. Mr. James Cudd will officiate. Burial will be at the Hinton Cemetery.
