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Bula Queen Obituary

Longtime Durango resident Bula Doris Queen died Wednesday, April 30, 2014, at Good Samaritan Society-Four Corners Village in Aztec, New Mexico, just 12 days shy of her 100th birthday.

Mrs. Queen was born May 12, 1914, in Headrick, Oklahoma, to Howard and Jessie Chapman. Her family moved from Oklahoma to New Mexico in 1928.

While in New Mexico, she met her husband, Bryan B. Queen. They married and raised three children. Sometime around the 1950s, she moved with her family to Durango, where she lived until her husband's death in 2003. Her children described her as a loving and kind wife, mother and grandmother.

Mrs. Queen was preceded in death by her husband, Bryan B. Queen, and her daughter, Selma Yeager.

She is survived by her sons, Bryan Lee Queen, of Durango; and Weldon Queen, of Aztec, and numerous grandchildren.

Private services will be held at a later date.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Durango Herald on May 18, 2014.

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