Individual Details

Funeral services will be held Thursday July 1, at 10 a.m. at Ebenezer Nazarene Church for Oscar Lee Petry, 80, who died Monday, June 28, 2004, at the Crowley Guest House. Interment will be in Ebenezer Methodist Cemetery. Pastor Wayland Gawthrop will officiate at the services. Mr. Petry served in the United States Army during WWII in the European Theater. He retired from Gulf Oil in Port Arthur, Texas in 1981 after working there for 34 years. Survivors include his wife, June Petry of Ebenezer; one daughter, Debra Bohanna and her husband Don of Groves, Texas; one son, Mark Petry of Ebenezer; two sisters, Chloe Harington of Crowley and Katie Faulk of Mauriceville, Texas; three half-brothers, George Petry of Richmond, Va., Carson and Winston Petry, both of Lafayette; one half-sister, Thelma Whited of DeRidder; one grandchild, Donita Turner and her husband Chris of Groves, Texas; and two great-grandchildren, Britni and Colton Turner of Groves, Texas. He was preceded in death by his parents, Ernest Lynn and Mattie Daily Petry, Sr.; two brothers, Creighton and Earnest Lynn Petry, Jr.; three sisters, Lois Sarver, Olive Sarver and Marie Petry. The family requests that visiting hours was observed from 10 a.m. at the Ebenezer Nazarene Church until 9 p.m. on Wednesday and at 8 a.m until service time on Thursday. Duhon Funeral Home of Crowley is in charge of arrangements. (Crowley Post-Signal, July 2004)

Birth	3 Mar 1924
Marriage	8 Jun 1946	Acadia Parish, LA - Ruby June Atkinson
Death	28 Jun 2004	Crowley, Acadia Parish, LA

Spouse	Ruby June Atkinson ( - )
Child	Debra "Debbie" Petry ( - )
Child	Mark Petry ( - )

Father	Ernest Clinton Petry (1888 - 1959)
Mother	Samantha "Mattie" Dailey (1885 - 1929)
Sibling	George Petry ( - )
Sibling	Carson Petry ( - )
Sibling	Thelma Faye Petry ( - )
Sibling	Winston Petry ( - )
Sibling	Olive Lillian Petry (1910 - 1986)
Sibling	Lois Girthel Petry (1912 - 1944)
Sibling	Creighton Lawrence Petry (1915 - 1996)
Sibling	Chloe Wilda Petry (1917 - 2015)
Sibling	Katie Lula Petry (1919 - )
Sibling	Ernest Lynn Petry (1922 - 1979)
Sibling	Marie Petry (1926 - )