Dolores El Marie Emerson

Dolores (85) died Sept 10, 2012 with family by her side. Born Nov 26, 1926 in Okla City, Ok to Elmer G & Nellie M (Davis) Cooper, Dolores lived her life with passion and will most be remembered for her love of family. She graduated from Classen HS in 1944. She attended Ok A&M, OCU, & OU, and married her high school sweetheart, Gerald (Jerry) in 1948. They were married 51 wonderful years until his death in 1999. Their children, Candy, Randy, & Jill will remember “mom” as a very caring and generous mother. She loved Sunday dinners with the whole gang, cooking, traveling, reading, gardening, genealogy, knitting, & her dogs. She & daddy spent many wonderful years traveling the world & attending OU football games (even though she was an Aggie fan), and tailgating with their best friends, Tebe & Norma Harris. She was a charter member of Alpha Delta Pi sorority at OU, & served as PTA president for numerous years at Mayfair Elementary & Northwest Classen HS. She was preceded in death by her parents and husband, son-in-law Steve Bosnyak & granddaughter Molly Emerson. She is survived by her children Candy Bosnyak, Randy Emerson, & Jill Langston & husband Ken; grandchildren Barry Bosnyak & wife Terri, Brittany Langston, Bo Langston & wife Trandy, Maggie Conell & husband Joey, Abby Emerson & partner Thomas Hines, & Annie, Casey, & Julie Emerson; great-grandchildren Henry & Oliver Bosnyak, Kacen Ayer, Brailey Langston, David Reed, Caden Nichols, Madelyn & Jackson Conell, & Greenley Hines. The family would like to especially thank her caregivers at Crossroads Hospice & T.B. Lackey Health Center at Baptist Village. Visitation will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Sept 12 at Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper 6600 Broadway Extension. Service will be at 2 pm Sept 13 at Hahn-Cook/Street & Draper Chapel. Interment will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery.