Doris (Harris) Richmond

Ida Doris Richmond, longtime Seminole resident, passed away at the age of 95 on August 6, 2022.  Doris was born October 19, 1926, to William M. and Clara V (Morgan) Harris in Garber, Oklahoma.  Her family moved to the Seminole area in 1929 where her father worked for the Sinclair Oil Company.  They lived northeast of Seminole in the old “Coody Lease” of Sinclair Oil until 1944 when Doris graduated from Mountain View high school, a country school east of Seminole.

Doris worked for the federal government for about four years before attending college at East Central in Ada where she met her husband, Charles Gilman Richmond. They were married June 5, 1949, in the pastor’s study of the First Christian Church in Seminole.  Doris and Gilman lived in Allen, OK until 1951 when Gilman enrolled at the University of Oklahoma under the G.I. Bill.  Doris worked at the university until March 1952 when her first son, Charles Jeffery Richmond was born.  She later worked at the Navy Base in Norman until 1957.  Her second son, William Michael, was born in October 1958.  In 1960, they moved to The Village in the Oklahoma City area.  In 1964, they moved to Incline Village at Lake Tahoe, Nevada, where Gilman worked for the Crystal Bay Development company.

After Gilman passed away in 1966, Doris and her boys moved to Tucson, AZ, near her brother, Durard Harris and his family.  In 1970, they moved back to Seminole where Doris was a stay-at-home mom until 1974 when she went to work as a secretary at the First Christian Church.  In 1976, she went to work at the Seminole County Health Department as typist clerk until she retired at the end of November 1994.

Doris enjoyed volunteer work at the Jasmine Moran Children’s Museum, being a helper at Interfaith Social Ministries, and nineteen years as a volunteer “Pink Lady” auxiliary at Seminole Hospital.  She also enjoyed senior citizen aerobics at the Senior Citizen Center and Water Aerobics at Seminole State College for many years after retirement.

Doris was baptized at age 12 and attended the First Christian Church here in Seminole.  She and Gilman attended and joined the Church of Christ in Allen.  She attended both the Church of Christ and First Christian Church in Norman, and the First Christian Church in The Village.  Doris and her family were charter members of a small community church at Lake Tahoe that was sponsored by the Presbyterian Church.  At first, the church had no building of its own, so church services were held in the pastor’s home, then in a nearby casino, and in summer at an outdoor chapel next to where the permanent church building was finished the week after Gilman died.

Doris was preceded in death by her husband, Charles Gilman Richmond, her parents, William and Clara, her oldest son, Charles Jeffrey Richmond, her brother, Durard Harris, and her sisters, Jean Baldridge and Clarice Morris.

She is survived by her son, William Michael Richmond and his wife, Heidi, by granddaughter, Anna Noelle Richmond, and grandson, Nathan Andrew Richmond.

Memorial services for Doris are scheduled for Thursday, August 11, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. at Swearingen Funeral Home Chapel in Seminole, Oklahoma.  Glen Pence, pastor of First Christian Church, Seminole will officiate.  Cremations arrangements are under the direction of Swearingen Funeral Home in Seminole, Oklahoma.