Carolyn Gail Bryson
A funeral service for Carolyn Gail Bryson, 74, former Clinton resident who had moved to Newkirk, will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Free Will Baptist Church in Clinton with a second funeral service at 2 p.m. Thursday in the First Christian Church in Newkirk. Both services will be officiated by Rev. Charles Murphy.
Burial will conclude in the Newkirk Cemetery, under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.
Mrs. Bryson died Friday, Oct. 31, 2014, in the home of her son, Allen Bryson, north of Arapaho. She was born March 22, 1940, in Arkansas City, Kan., the daughter of Claude Phillip Iseminger and Lola Maxine (Plecker) Iseminger.
She was raised and attended school in Arkansas City, graduating there in 1958.
She continued her education at the Wichita Business College, learning accounting.
Mrs. Bryson married Bernard B. Bryson on Aug. 23, 1959, in Arkansas City. They made their first home in Odessa, Texas, where she worked in an accounting firm.
In 1961, she moved to Enid, where she did bookkeeping for a gentleman who owned a Pittsburg Paint Store and Peyton’s Survey Office as well as for a CPA office and for the Flower Patch.
She moved on to Clinton in 1986 and worked for Brittain and Associates, Kmart and for her son, Allen Bryson, in his accounting practice before retiring in 2001.
She and her husband moved to the Foss Lake Estates in 1999 and purchased a recreational vehicle and traveled extensively. In later years, they would spend the cold months in Mathis, Texas, and the other months in Newkirk.
Preceding her in death were her parents and a sister, Betty Jo Hager.
She was a member of the First Christian Church in Arkansas City, Kan., and while in Clinton, she attended the Free Will Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Bernard, of the Newkirk home; three sons, Voe Allen Bryson, and his wife, Debbie, of Arapaho, Kelly Joe Bryson and his wife, Lana, of Oklahoma City, and Phillip Leroy Bryson, and his wife, Mary, of Corpus Christi, Texas; a brother, Bernard Phillip Iseminger, and his wife, Donna, of Broken Arrow; 12 grandchildren, Nicole Bryson, Nicholas Bryson, Natalie Bryson, Ryan Bryson, Danielle Brown, Dustin Clayton, Haley Clayton, Makayla Bryson and Trevor Bryson, Joseph Scott, Angela Scott and Patrick Garrison; and great-grandchildren, Riley Bryson, Teagan Bryson, Tate Bryson, Alex Bryson, Carmaleta Bryson, Mikey Bryson, Tucker Bryson, Tyler Bryson and Tanner Bryson, Ireland Scott, Hannah Scott, Brennan Garrison and Clara Scott, Garrett Brown, Conner Brown and Kiersten Brown.