Frances (Tyrrell) GATHRIGHT

GATHRIGHT, TYRRELL, ROYER, EASTMAN, CAMPBELL

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 8/11/2008 at 11:52:16

Tulsa World (OK)
April 3, 1993

Services Planned For Tulsa Civic Leader Gathright

Funeral services for longtime Tulsa resident Frances Tyrrell Gathright are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday at St. John's Episcopal Church. Gathright, 56, died Wednesday after a long illness. She was born in Belmond, Iowa, and moved to Tulsa with her husband, Kent, in 1965. Gathright was president of the Tulsa chapter of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Alumnae Club and held several offices at the national level with that sorority organization. She served as president of the Tulsa Alumnae Panhellenic and Women of the Hurricane Clubs and was involved in many civic and philanthropic organizations. Gathright was a past chairwoman of the Nancy Lopez Golf Tournament and was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Book Ends and Philbrook Museum.

Survivors include her husband, C. Kent Gathright of Tulsa; a son, Cary K. Gathright Jr. of Tulsa; a daughter, Grayson Royer of Colorado Springs, Colo.; parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Tyrrell Jr. of Beaumont, Texas; two sisters, Jeanne Eastman of Beaumont, Texas, and Lynne Campbell of Houston, and three grandchildren. Friends are contributing to the American Cancer Society or a charity of their choice.