Oresik, Dallie Jo (Decatur)

  • Tuesday, August 22, 2017
Dallie Jo Oresik
Dallie Jo Oresik

Dallie Jo Oresik, 84, a resident of Decatur, Tennessee, passed away Saturday evening at the family residence.

Mrs. Oresik was the daughter of the late Maggie Lunsford Freeman and James Freeman. Her first husband, Alvin Lankford, her second husband, Joseph Oresik, her sisters, Ollie Greene, Rosetta Webb, Daphne Jones and Billie Ruth Williams and her brothers, Robert Freeman, Claude Freeman and John William Freeman also preceded her in death.

Mrs. Oresik was a sewer most of her life, working in chair factories and American Uniform Company. She loved the outdoors including, hunting and fishing. She also enjoyed bowling. 

Survivors include her children, Jimmy Lankford and his wife Pat, Sue Dickson, Kenneth Lankford and his wife Beverly and Eugene Lankford and his wife Nhoylin, her 14 grandchildren, her several great- grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.

The Remembrance of Life Service will be conducted on Wednesday, Aug. 23, at 1 p.m. at the Jim Rush Funeral and Cremation Services North Ocoee Chapel with Reverend Tom Shannon and Reverend Anthony Traylor officiating. Interment will follow in the Lankford Family Cemetery with Danny Lankford, Deandre Allen, Zachary Shannon, Jacob Shannon, Dillon Cain and Tyler Lankford serving as casket bearers.

The family will receive friends from 5-8 p.m. on Tuesday at the Jim Rush Funeral and Cremation Services North Ocoee Chapel who has charge of the arrangements.

You may share your condolences and your memories with the Oresik family at www.jimrushfuneralhomescom. 

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