Laurel Perkins

Services are scheduled at 2:00 P.M. Thursday, September 13, at Church of God for Laurel B. Perkins of Artesia, New Mexico. Mrs. Perkins, 77, died Sunday, September 9, 2007 at her home. Pastor Artie Cantrell will officiate at the services with burial at Woodbine Cemetery. Pallbearers will be her grandsons. Mrs. Perkins was born January 7, 1930 in Jackson County, Oklahoma; the daughter of Sebert Lemaster and Nellie Dubois Lemaster. On July 15, 1950 she was married to Ernest Burl Perkins in Snyder, Oklahoma. She came to Artesia in 1976 from Altus, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death January 24, 2005. She was also preceded in death by her parents; brother Lonnie Lemaster; and sister Betty Thompson. She was a homemaker and a member of House of Worship Church of God. She also was a salesman for 20 years of household goods. Survivors include her son Ernest B. Perkins II and wife Andrea of Ada, Oklahoma; daughter Lanette Turner of Artesia; brother Ellis Lemaster of Altus; sister Edith Snyder of Altus; brother-in-laws Bob Perkins and wife Sue of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Bill Perkins and wife Carol of Antlers, Oklahoma; grandchildren Ernest B. Perkins III of Poteau, Oklahoma, Skyelar Perkins of Durant, Oklahoma, Morgan Holmes and husband Kevin of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Gabe Turner of Artesia, and James Turner and wife Christine of Las Cruces, N.M.