Keturah Elizabeth "Turah" Mabry Foxworth, 91, of Canton died July 5, 2005 at Heritage Manor. She was born in Houston, Texas on October 31, 1913 to Charles Massingill and Maude Wilson Mabry. After graduating from Beaumont High School in 1930 she married O.B. Foxworth in December of that same year. After sixty years of marriage he died in 1990. Together they operated several businesses in Beaumont including hardware, building supply and home construction.
She is survived by her loving children, Charles D. (Buddy) Foxworth and his wife Martha of Beaumont, Doris Foxworth Brumfield and her husband the late Brum Brumfield of Beaumont and Jenilyn Foxworth Ripley and Randy Simon of Bastrop; eleven grandchildren, Charles Wall, Ann Wegner, Reba Oggletree, Douglas Foxworth, Allison Ripley Bates, Susan Foxworth Hamilton, Amy Ripley Ridenour, Julie Foxworth Wilke, Scott Brumfield, Donna Ripley Hamill and Charles Foxworth, Jr.; twenty great grandchildren and four great great grandchildren. Keturah is preceded in death by an adopted son, J.O. Foxworth; grandsons, Dean Foxworth and Carl W. (Buck) Foxworth.
Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 9, 2005 at Broussard’s, 1605 North Major Drive, Beaumont followed by a burial at Forest Lawn Memorial Park. Serving as pallbearers will be Mark Craigen, K. Ryan Ripley, Charlie Foxworth, Jr., Scott Brumfield, Douglas Foxworth and Clete Wegner. A gathering of family and friends will be Friday evening July 8, 2005 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the mortuary.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Shriners Hospital for Crippled Children, 815 Market Street, Galveston, Texas 77550-2725 a favorite charity of the Foxworths.
