Deana Jo Bourland

Deana Jo Bourland was born August 11, 1939 to Robert and Lois Gertrude (Gibson) ion Buffalo, Oklahoma. She graduated from Laverne High School and went to college for one year at Enid, Oklahoma, where she met Melvin Ray LaRoche. To the marriage were born four children, Debbie Rae LaRoche, Brenda Kay Johnson, Cynthia Lorene LaRoche and Darryl Wayne LaRoche. She had twelve grandchildren, twenty five great grandchildren and three great-great grandchildren.

She was a stay-at-home mom most of her life and she worked at the Beaver County Nursing Home doing laundry for two years.

The important thing in her life was her family. She was a loving mother and grandmother. She was preceded in death by her daughter, Debbie LaRoche; two grandsons, Brian LaRoche and Barry Wooldridge and husbands Tom Bourland and the kids dad, Melvin LaRoche.