Dovie Ann Metcalf, 87 years, 8 months, 8 days old, passed away on , October 20, 2021 at Grove Nursing Center in Grove, Oklahoma .
Dovie was born February 12, 1934 in Douglas County, MO to Vernie and Flona May (McIntosh) Jenkins.
On October 23, 1951 Dovie and Ernest Carl Metcalf were united in marriage at Harrison, AR and they were blessed with five children.
Dovie was a retired Certified Nurses Assistant. She worked at Western Prairie Care Home in Ulysses, KS and also Bob Wilson Memorial Hospital. She enjoyed working with the elderly people. She was a member of the Baptist Church in Brown Branch, Missouri.
Dovie was a wife, caregiver and craftmaker. Boy howdy could she make crafts, quilts, pillowcases, ponchos, hats, rugs, and clothes. I swear she crotcheted around the world at least three times. She even taught her granddaughter all her crafts that she made.
Dovie was preceded in death by her parents, two sons, Lance Lee Metcalf and his wife, Sharon, and Tex Clay Metcalf and his wife, Beverly Ann, grandchildren, Carolyn Ann Metcalf, Carla Metcalf, Eugene Carl Metcalf, and John Ross McGoldrick, brother and wife, Harold & Sylvia Metcalf, sister and husband, Betty Ann & Carl Gardner; and daughter in law, Luann Metcalf.
Dovie is survived by her husband, Ernie, her children, Mr. & Mrs. Clarence (Connie) Hampton, Mr. & Mrs. Marty (Luann) Metcalf, and Mr. & Mrs. Scott (Tressa) McGoldrick, grandchildren; William Metcalf, Nick Hampton, Wendy Shankle, Melissa Hampton, Luanna Stepro, Nicole Robertson, and Levi Metcalf, Mr. and Mrs. Kyle (Tristina)Pittman; multiple great grandchildren and two-on-the-way, many great great grandchildren, one sister, Martha Massey, many nieces, nephews and a host of other relatives and friends.
Funeral services for Dovie will be Tuesday, October 26, 2021 at 2:00 p.m. in the Clinkingbeard Chapel, Ava, MO with burial following in the Union Grove Cemetery. Officiating will be Pastor Oren Alcorn. In Dovie’s memory if anyone can make a quilt for a soldier, that would be a blessing.
