A memorial service for Dora Ann Tait, age 72, of Enid, will be at 2:00 P.M. Friday July 17, 2009 at the family home of Frank and Laura.  Cremation arrangements are by Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

   She was born to Leonadis and Hazel (LaPratt) Humes on November 25, 1936, in Caro, Michigan, and died Thursday, July 9, 2009, at her home in Enid after her third battle with cancer.

    Dora grew up in Caro, MI, and attended school there.  She married J.D. Tait in Michigan, in June of 1972, and they made their home in Caro, MI.  They moved to Oklahoma in 1981.  From 1986 to 1993, she worked at Oklahoma University in the kitchen at the campus hospital, and at The Common’s Restaurant.  Dora and J.D. owned the 40 and Up Club in Noble, and a golf and country club in Caro, MI.  She moved to Enid in 2002.

    She is survived by four children, Laura Lee Botkin of Enid, Ranee Agent of Norman, Terry Osentoski of Michigan, and Randy Tait of Wisconsin; thirteen grandchildren; fifteen great-grandchildren; three brothers, Lloyd J. Humes, Gene Humes and Leon Humes, all of Michigan; and one sister, Onalee Thicke, of Michigan.

    Dora was preceded in death by her husband J.D, parents, three children, and one sister.         

     Memorials may be made to the funeral home in Dora’s name.