Doris L. Broussard, 78, of Sour Lake was born on March 14, 1930 in Woodville to W.B. and Bertha Kirkland McAlister and passed away Friday, March 14, 2008 with her loving family surrounding her, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont.
Funeral Services will be held March 16, 2008, Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at Wesley United Methodist Church with Rev. Greg Edwards officiating. Interment will follow at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Beaumont.
Mrs. Broussard was a bookkeeper at First City Bank for twenty years and a secretary at the Hardin Jefferson County Independent School District where she knew and influenced generations of young people in our community for twenty years.
She is preceded in death by her parents and brothers, Donald and Billy McAllister. She is survived by her loving husband of 53 years, Woodrow Wilson Broussard who stood by her side every moment until death and their love for each other was as strong today as it was the day they married; daughter and son-in-law, Debra Ann and Thomas L. Harken, Jr.; son and daughter-in-law, David Wilson and Dorothy G. Broussard; four grandchildren, Thomas L. Harken III, Terran Alexis Harken, Ginger Bree Broussard and Brandon Scott Broussard; sisters, Ora Dell Mahaffey and Nelda Parker and numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Cancer Society, P.O. Box 22718, Oklahoma City, OK 73123-1718.
To know her was to love her. She would want to be remembered for being a great wife, mom and grandmother.