Debra Renee "Debbie" Guess

Funeral services for Debra Renee “Debbie” Guess will be held on Friday, June 5th, 2020 at 10:00 AM at Reed-Culver Chapel with Pastor L.B. Wildcat officiating. Her family will receive visitors on Thursday June 4th, 2020 from 1:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Reed-Culver Funeral Home. Debra will be laid to rest with her family at Cobb Cemetery in Briggs, OK. Online condolences may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Pallbearers for Debra include OJ Rotramel, Montana Capps, Mac Capps, Timmy Neugin, Eric Gunderson, and Hoss Neugin.

Debra Renee “Debbie” Guess was born on Saturday, October 22nd, 1966 in Tahlequah, OK, the daughter of Toy and Betty Lou (Philpott) Rotramel. She was raised with a large family of two brothers and nine sisters, Marcella, Toy Allen, Geneva, Carol, Mary Jane, Susie, Dorothy, Cynthia, Orville, and Maggie. She attended school in Briggs, Braggs, and graduated Tahlequah High School. She then began her college studies at Bacone and graduated from Northeastern State University, where she worked in Admissions all of her working career. She loved helping the incoming students figure out what courses they needed, how they needed to get assistance, and just talking with them in general. She would do whatever was necessary to help those needing her assistance. When she wasn’t working at NSU, you could find her at Calvary Indian Baptist Church in Tahlequah. She worked tirelessly writing letters to the many Missionaries, keeping them encouraged with her prayers and work. The many church members were her second family, she adored them all. Debbie was devoted to her parents, and took care of her mother in her final years, making sure she was loved and cared for. There was nothing she liked better than time spent with her family, she adored them all, and her nieces and nephews were like her own children. There was nothing that pleased her more than watching the sun come up or set in her own backyard, just watching the birds singing and a little quiet time with her thoughts. She was a faithful friend, a devoted daughter, a loving sister, aunt and cousin. For all the plans she had and all she wanted to accomplish, she passed from this life on Saturday, May 30th, 2020 in her home in Tahlequah, OK. She was 53 years, 7 months, and 8 days old. Debbie will be greatly missed by those who knew and loved her.

She is preceded in death by her parents, Toy and Betty Lou, paternal grandparents, Watie and Elizabeth (Smart) Rotramel, maternal grandparents, Jim and Leone (English) Philpott, two sisters, Cindy Spradlin and Carol Langley, and one brother, Toy Allen Rotramel.

Those left to cherish her memory include one brother, Orville Rotramel and wife Bonnie of Tahlequah, OK, and six sisters, Marcella Boone and husband Danny of Moreno Valley, CA, Geneva Coulston of Stilwell, OK, Mary Jane Jones of Hulbert, OK, Susie Jesse of Welling, OK, Dorothy Davis and husband Phillip of Nebraska, and Maggie McLemore and Husband Daryl of Tahlequah, OK. She also leaves behind many nieces, nephews, and cousins, her church family at Calvary Indian Baptist Church, as well as a host of friends and loved ones too numerous to mention.