DORIS LOREE COLKIN

Funeral for Doris Loree Colkin, 83, of Gallatin was at 10 a.m. Tuesday at Autry Funeral Home chapel with Rev. Robin Parsons officiating. Burial was in Henry Cemetery at Gallatin.

Mrs. Colkin died May 8. She was born April 17, 1925, to the late W.O. and Annie Chandler. She was reared in Gallatin. She was a member of the Gallatin Missionary Baptist Church and a nurse.

She earned her R.N. degree at Scott and White Hospital. In 1951 she married the late Joe T. Colkin. They moved to Ennis where they reared their family and later retired in the Gallatin community.

She is preceded in death by her husband Joe T. Colkin and brothers, Arlie, Minyard and Herman Chandler.

Survivors are a sister Goldie Mason of Liberty City; two sons and a daughter-in-law Tom and Birdie Colkin and Don Colkin, all Gallatin; two daughters and a son-in-law, Margie Colkin of Rusk and Linda and Jack Gauntt of Lindale; five grandchildren Adam, Jeremy and wife Morgan, and Mary Gauntt, Leigh Anne Colkin, and Zoe Ruben; and one great-grandson, Jaxson Gauntt.

Pallbearers were Rex Chandler, Randy Chandler, Jeremy Gauntt, Adam Gauntt, Andrew Winship and George Winship.