Doris Proctor

1935 - 2016

Former Oklahoma resident DORIS RAE DOWDY COONCE PROCTOR, 81, went to be with the Lord on October 19, 2016, at Deaconess Medical Center in Spokane, Wash. Mrs. Proctor was born March 27, 1935, in Doughetry, OK to the late Oren Turner and Julia Mae Atchley Dowdy. She had an unwavering faith in God which started at a young age and stayed with her always. She moved to California as a teenager where she met her first husband and had four children. She married Jess Robert Proctor on Dec. 12, 1964, in Reno, NV, and moved to Alaska in 1967. There she worked for the Anchorage Borough School District and retired in 1981. She and her husband Jess returned to Washington, Okla to be closer to her mother Julia and where she became a member of Pentecostal Holiness Church and a Sunday School teacher. She and her husband were both members of the McClain County Sheriff's Posse. After the death of her husband Jess in 2001, Mrs. Proctor moved to Spokane, WA to be near her children and grandchildren, and in late 2007 moved to Anchorage, AK with her youngest daughter, returning in early 2010 to Spokane where she lived until her death. Along with her husband Jess and parents Oren Turner and Julia Mae, Mrs. Proctor is preceded in death by three brothers, Howard Leroy, Oren Turner, Jr., and Clovis Lee Dowdy; four sisters, Elsie Cleora and Violet Mae Dowdy, Jean Alston, and Martha Bratcher; sons, Jerry and Dennis Proctor; daughters, Emily and Sue Proctor; and grandson Justin Nadreau. Survivors include sons, Mark Coonce of Anchorage, Alaska, Robert Proctor of Las Vegas, NV; three daughters, Glenda Coonce-Mangos and husband Andrew, of Selah, WA; Debra Coonce-Harmon of Medical Lake, WA.; and Annette Coonce-Nadreau Edwards and husband Doug of Milton, FL.; brothers, Eugene Dowdy and wife Goldie of CA, Allen Dowdy of KS, and Kenneth Dowdy of OKC; sister Ruby Alston of Brogan, OR; and 24 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren.