Obituary

Funeral services for Lauren Brooke Armstrong, 20, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Harvest Christian Fellowship Church in Plainview with Paul Cypert, pastor, and Ken Rowland officiating. Burial will be in the Plainview Cemetery by Freeman-Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center. Viewing will be held at the funeral home from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday. Ms. Armstrong died Saturday, June 17, 2006, in Sherman. She was born July 10, 1985, to Jon and Sheila Patridge Armstrong in Borger. During her years at Hale Center High School, Lauren was active as a twirler, involved in student government, UIL, Girls State, played the bass clarinet in the Hale Center Owl Band and received a 1st Division rating at State Twirling Competition. After graduating in 2003, she attended Southeastern Oklahoma State University where she was active as a Savage Storm Leader, a student orientation organization, and was the university's marching band featured twirler, member of Kappa Kappa Psi band fraternity and won Miss Majorette Oklahoma in 2005. She was a member of the Cardinal Keys National Honor Sorority, was a writer for the SOSU newspaper, The Southeastern, and was on the KSSU campus radio. She was also a volunteer for the American Red Cross. She is survived by her parents of Hale Center; one brother, Eric Armstrong of Austin; one sister, Sarah Armstrong of Lubbock; her grandparents, Calvin Patridge and J.C. and Avenell Armstrong, all of Plainview. The family suggests memorials to Southeastern Foundation, in Memory of Lauren Armstrong, 1405 N. Fourth St., P.O. Box 4187, Durant,