Obituary

Witten, Larry Wayne, Mrs. (Doris Jean Nichols)

Doris Jean Witten, 80, of Lubbock and formerly of Olton, went to be with her Lord and Savior on Sept. 4, 2017, in Lubbock. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. Friday, Sept. 8, 2017, at the First Baptist Church in Olton with Brother Kyle Streun and Brother David Azam officiating. Interment will follow at Plainview Memorial Park in Plainview under the direction of Ramage Funeral Directors. The family will receive friends at Ramage Funeral Directors in Olton from 4-6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 7, 2017.

Doris was born on Oct. 22, 1936, to Oran and Juanita (Campbell) Nichols in Big Spring, Texas. She was the oldest of seven children.

In August 1960, Doris married Larry Wayne Witten and moved to Olton, Texas, where she remained until she moved to Lubbock in 2014.

Doris attended Wayland Baptist College and graduated from Texas Tech University in 1959. She taught school briefly before becoming a homemaker and being actively involved in raising her three children. She was a long time member and Sunday School/Bible study teacher at First Baptist Church in Olton.

Doris' passion in life was loving God and interceding for others in prayer. She loved studying God's word and teaching others the valuable truths from it that inspired and encouraged her. Her family remembers her commitment to prayer. While in her later days, she struggled to remember many things, she never forgot the words to almost all the hymns that she knew and the Savior that carried her through each day. Doris' legacy can be best illustrated by the things she invested ahead through her fervent prayers and heart for missions.

Doris was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Larry Witten, in 1987, and a sister, Bobbie Nagel.
Those left to cherish her memory include her son, Rex Witten and his wife, Deborah of Hale Center; two daughters, Melanie Ridley and her husband, David of Wolfforth and Joy Hallock and her husband, Ben of Houston; three brothers, Don Nichols and his wife, Barbara of Midland, John Nichols and his wife, Becky of Midland, and Kenneth Nichols and his wife, Angie of Mesquite; and two sisters, Edith Orozco of Midland and Nicky Lobner of Edinburg. She was blessed with six grandchildren, Adam and Leslie Berry, Katie Ridley, Austin and Grant Witten, and Kelyn Hallock; and two great-grandchildren: Casen and Abbylee Berry.

The family suggest memorials be made to Gideons International c/o The Gideons International Processing Center P.O. Box 97251 Washington, DC 20090-7251.

The family would also like to send a special thanks to the staff at Raider Ranch for the tender and compassionate care they gave to Doris and to the Bacon Heights Sonshiner Choir for their precious ministries of music.