The funeral service for Hattie “Elizabeth” Thornburg, age 75, will be at 1:00 P.M. Monday, March 1, 2010 at the Anderson-Burris Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Wade Burleson officiating.  Burial will be at 4:00 P.M.  Washunga Cemetery at Newkirk, under the direction of Anderson-Burris Funeral Home.

   She was born to Edgar and Ladoma (Kekahbah) Bowker on June 5, 1934 in Washunga, Oklahoma, and went to be with her Lord Thursday, February 25, 2010 while residing at Civitan Homes.

   Elizabeth grew up in Kaw City and graduated from Kaw City High School, and later graduated from Draughn’s Business College.  On November 29, 1952, she married Ray LaRue in Lovington, New Mexico, and four daughters were born to this union.  The family lived in various locations in Texas, New Mexico, Idaho and Oklahoma.  The family moved to Guymon in 1966. After her divorce, she moved to Borger, and married Guy Thornburg and they lived there for ten years. Later she moved to Enid in 1998. She loved to bowl, play cards, and fish.  Elizabeth attended Emmanuel Baptist Church.

   She is survived by three daughters, Pamela Wadley and husband Courtney of Enid, Rhonda Batterman and husband Dan of Borger, Texas, and Anita Miller and husband Dennis of Greeley, Colorado; seven grandchildren; and ten great grandchildren.

   She was preceded in death by infant daughter Mary Elizabeth LaRue, three brothers, four sisters, and one grandson Chad Miller.

   Memorials may be made through the funeral home to M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, or the Kaw Nation Educational Department.