Guymon-area obituary honors lifelong Oklahoma Panhandle resident Doris Ferguson
Doris Ferguson’s life stretched from Hardesty to Guymon, with family at her side when she died at 97 on June 10.
Doris Faye Goble Ferguson’s story was rooted in Texas County from the start, and it ended the same way, at home in Guymon with family around her. She died Wednesday afternoon, June 10, 2026, at age 97, leaving behind the kind of local memory that comes from a lifetime spent in the Oklahoma Panhandle.
She was born Oct. 10, 1928, in Hardesty to Carl and Ellen Elisabeth Reust Goble, and the obituary described her as a lifelong Oklahoma Panhandle resident. It identified her as a homemaker, a detail that places her among the many women whose work held households, kin networks and daily life together across the county’s smaller towns and farm communities.
The timing and setting of her farewell reflected that same close local pattern. Visitation was held Friday, June 12, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home in Guymon, and a graveside service was scheduled for Saturday, June 13, at 10 a.m. In a county where public life often centers on family ties, church circles and longtime neighbors, those arrangements gave relatives and friends a place to gather and mark a life that stretched across nearly a century.
Guymon, the county seat since 1907, anchors Texas County’s civic life, while Hardesty sits about 20 miles east on U.S. Highway 412 and State Highway 3. The county had 21,384 residents in the 2020 census and an estimated population of 20,322 on July 1, 2025, a reminder of how small and interconnected the Panhandle remains. In that setting, an obituary for a woman born in Hardesty and buried from Guymon carries the weight of local continuity.
The family history in her notices also reaches back to the mid-20th century Panhandle and beyond. A separate obituary for Joe Eugene Ferguson says Joe and Doris Faye (Goble) Ausbun were united in marriage on June 21, 1949, in Clayton, New Mexico. That detail places her life within the generation that built families, homes and community institutions across Texas County and the surrounding region, one household at a time.
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