Laquita Joy 'Kate' Graham, 73, went home peacefully on Saturday February 10, 2007. Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM Tuesday, February 13, 2007, at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park.The family will receive friends from 5 PM to 7 PM Monday at the funeral home.She was born August 11, 1933, to Dan and Gladys Harrison in Red River County, Oklahoma. Laquita married Calvin Graham in Memphis, Texas in 1949. They then moved to Midland in 1953, where she began to raise her six children.Laquita loved painting, gardening and being in nature. She also traveled to many beautiful countries, including Malaysia, Singapore, Trinidad, England and France, as well as Hawaii and Germany.Laquita loved her family and they each have a special place in her heart.Laquita was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Calvin Dwight Graham; a granddaughter, Julie Anna Woods; two sisters, Helen Lewis and Shirley Batson; and two brothers, Dearl and Malcom Harrison.Laquita leaves to cherish her memory a son, Bruce Graham and wife, Shirley of Midland; four daughters, Judy Woods and husband, James, Sheila Williams and husband, David all of Midland, Anita Banks and husband, Clarence of Perth, Australia and Becky Rice and husband, Billy of Austin; three sisters, Jewell Christian, Ruth Hennessee and Lois Boise all of Lawton, Oklahoma; and two brothers, Don Harrison of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Gene Harrison of Midland. Also surviving are 13 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.Serving as pallbearers will be her grandsons, Jody and Blake Graham, Jamie, Jeremy Justin and Joshua Woods, Kinsey Williams and Sebastian Wilson.The family would like to thank Jennifer, Mary and Teresa for all your love, kindness and support that you gave to mother.The family suggests memorials to the American Lung Association, P. O. Box 26460, Austin, Texas 78755-0460.,
