ADA-Services for Dorothy Ann Weiss, 81, Ada, are 11:00 a.m. Thursday, August 16, 2007, at First Baptist Church, Dr. Pat Kilby and Harold Ware officiating. A private family committal service will follow at Swan Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. Weiss died on Monday, August 13, 2007, at her home. She was born November 25, 1925, at Edmond, Oklahoma, to Edward Alexander Kearby and Katheryn Ruth Cleaver Kearby. She attended school in Edmond and graduated from Edmond High School in 1943. She graduated from Central State College in 1947 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree. While attending college, she was a member of Blue Curtain Players and The Criterion Club, and served as Class Reporter her Senior year. She moved to Ada in 1955 from Edmond and worked at First National Bank Trust Department for 12 years. She was a volunteer at Valley View Regional Hospital from 1984-2007 and volunteered approximately 7000 hours. Her last assignment was working in the Gift Shop at the hospital. She was a member of the Ada Tanti Study Club (Fine Arts Department) from 1955-2007, a member of the Ada "Key of G Kitchen Band", and a member of First Baptist Church and Faith Sunday School Class.
She married Jack Dean Weiss on June 6, 1947. He preceded her in death on March 12, 2000. She was also preceded in death by 2 brothers, Gene Kearby and James Ross Kearby.
Survivors include a sister, Frances Edwina Chambers, Edmond, Oklahoma; three daughters, Sharon Lambert and husband Jack, Ada, Oklahoma; Luanne Lamson, Edmond, Oklahoma; and Kathy Albright and husband Randy, Gordonville, Texas; four grandchildren, Sasha Clements, Norman, Oklahoma; Ryan Albright, Edmond, Oklahoma; Trey Albright, Gordonville, Texas; and Kearby Lamson, Edmond, Oklahoma; and two great grandchildren, Will Clements and Reese Clements, Norman, Oklahoma.
Bearers are Trey Albright, Ryan Albright, Randy Albright, Jack Lambert, Jason Clements, and Kenneth Elkins.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the First Baptist Church, Falls Creek Brick or Seat Fund, 521 S. Broadway, Ada, OK 74820 in memory of Mrs. Dorothy Weiss.