Doris Luretta Reiser Arnold

Doris Luretta Reiser Arnold

Funeral service for Doris Luretta Reiser Arnold will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Monday, February 3, 2025 at the Chapel of Sevier Funeral Home. Interment will be at Fairlawn Cemetery under the direction of Sevier Funeral Home.

Viewing for Doris Arnold will begin Friday, January 31, 2025 from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and will continue Saturday, February 1, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Sunday, February 2, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. at Sevier Funeral Home.

Doris Luretta Reiser Arnold was born in Walters, Oklahoma on April 23, 1928 and peacefully passed from this earth and gained her heavenly reward on January 29, 2025 at her home on Tabler Hill.

Her career began when she was a junior in high school. Help was hard to come by, as she would say, so a neighbor vouched for her and she was hired by the Bell Telephone Company as a switchboard operator. She continued working after school as she finished her senior year. She planned to work in order to pursue a degree at Cameron University.

However, when a handsome Navy SeeBee returned from war to reclaim his tennis racket he had lent her, she was smitten and new plans were created. She and Paul Masters Arnold were married in the fall of 1946 in her mother's living room. She took pride in her job as an operator, but in 1948, she began her favorite career of all, motherhood. She devoted herself to her family, as well as cared for the children of her working friends, going so far as to do their ironing for grocery money just so she could be with her children. As those children grew, she instilled her admirable work ethic in them. She taught them how to knock out walls and how to build them back, how to build a shelf to be able to properly organize their books and toys and to never give up on a bent nail, but rather, she taught them how to straighten them for the next project.

She was always eager to learn something new which led her to creating stained glass pieces and whittling boots and dogs out of a raw block of wood. According to her, there was "always plenty to do" at Tabler. In her later years, you could find her in the milk barn working on a project, sitting in her chair reading, cracking pecans, tending to her rose bushes, or riding her scooter down the lane to check the mail.

She shared her whole self with the love of God that filled her heart.

Doris, Mom, Grammy, friend. She is loved by all who she blessed in her 96 years on this earth.

She is preceded in death by her parents, her forever husband, Paul Masters Sr., her sons, Paul Masters Jr. and Benjie Ontjes Arnold.

She is survived by her daughters, Maggie Wallace, Ruth Startz, and Drenay Bain. 11 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and 1 precious great-great grandson. As well as numerous in-laws, nephews, nieces and friends.