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February 14, 2012

Julia Louise Handke Dudley

CHICKASHA — Funeral service for Julia Louise Handke Dudley, 86, of Chickasha, Oklahoma will be held on Thursday, February 16, 2012 at 2:00 p.m. at the Southern Oaks Church of Christ. Ron Blankinship and Brian Johnson will officiate.

Julia was born the daughter of Gustav Adolph Handke and Anna Mae Worthington Handke on July 27, 1925 in Dutton, Oklahoma. She died on February 10, 2012 in Chickasha.

Julia attended the LaCross School as a child, and on December 31, 1946 she and Kenneth Ray Dudley were married in Chickasha. She lived in many places as she followed her husband’s work in the oilfield. In 1967 she returned to Oklahoma after the death of her husband. In 1981 she moved to Chickasha. Julia attended the Chickasha Church of the Nazarene.

Julia is preceded in death by her husband, Kenneth Ray Dudley; daughter Wilma Lois Gabbert; sisters Lottie Houts, Martha Whitley, Ethel Cox; and brother Garret Handke.

Survivors include:

Sister: Leona Dudley of Garden City, KS

Brother & wife: Joe and Earlene Handke of Mangum, OK

Daughter: Karen Emberton of Chickasha, OK

Daughter & companion: Norma Haney & Ric Hankins of Cement, OK

Daughter & husband: Loretta & Moris Pound of Ralston, OK

Son & Wife: Kenneth & Wilma Dudley of Chickasha, OK

Numerous Grandchildren, Great-Grandchildren, & other family

Interment will be in the Memory Lane Cemetery in Anadarko, Oklahoma. Services are under the direction of McRay Funeral Home.

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