Funeral Services for Dorothy Faye Lout Oglethorpe, 83, of Beaumont will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, August 11, 2004 at Broussard’s, 2000 McFaddin, Beaumont with burial to follow at Forest Lawn Cemetery. A gathering of family and friends will be from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, August 10, 2004 at the mortuary.
She died Sunday, August 8, 2004, at Christus St. Elizabeth Hospital in Beaumont after a six-month battle with cancer.
Known by those who loved her as Faye, Kaye, Katy Lou, Granny, Gee, and Geebers, she was a native of Shelby County, Texas and lived most of her adult life in Beaumont.
During World War II, she was a welder at the Beaumont shipyards. Later she was manager of the Kitten Café at Hotel Beaumont, after which she spent many years as a devoted wife, mother, and homemaker.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Joseph Emory Lout, Sr. and Bonnie Boles Lout of Beaumont; two brothers, J.E. Lout, Jr. of Port Neches and East Hamilton and Billy Lout of Houston.
Survivors include her husband of sixty-two years, John Howard Oglethorpe of Beaumont; two daughters, Bonnie Emmons and her husband Win Emmons III of Waco and Kim Matkin and her husband Mike of Irving; two grandchildren, Win Emmons IV of Waco and Melissa Matkin of Irving; one brother, James Lout and his wife Opal of Jasper; one brother-in-law, Tom Oglethorpe of Morgan; sister-in-law, Marie Lout of Houston; cousins, including Ruth Samford of Nederland and Robert Brittain of Beaumont; and many beloved nieces and nephews.