Paula Reeves

REEVES -- Paula DuFour, 53, passed away Wednesday, June 28, 2006. She was born in Elk City to Robert L. and Wanda DuFour. Paula was raised in Tulsa and graduated from Memorial High School in 1971. After attending Oklahoma State University, she married and moved to Amarillo, TX, where she worked as a Legal Secretary. In 1997, after learning she needed a heart transplant, due to a genetic ailment, she returned home to Tulsa. One year later, she received the gift of life through a heart transplant at St. Francis Hospital. In recent years, she worked for the Tulsa business, 742-DINE. Paula is survived by: her daughter, Julie Reeves of Austin, TX; her son and daughter-in-law, Matt and Nicole Reeves of Huntsville, AL; her granddaughter, Emma Grace Reeves, also of Huntsville; her sisters, Janice Barber and Sherrill Vaught of Tulsa; and her mother, Wanda DuFour of Tulsa. A Memorial service will be held at 11 a.m., Saturday, July 1, 2006 at Trinity Episcopal Church, located in downtown Tulsa at 6th Street and Detroit Ave. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations in Paula's name to the Clarehouse, the hospice service that took care of her in her final days, or the St. Francis Hospital Heart Transplant Support Group.