Miriam Olree

April 6, 1934 - June 26, 2021

Miriam Ella Draper Olree Miriam Olree, resident of Kirby Pines Retirement Community, Memphis, passed away on June 26, 2021. She loved her Lord and was a member of the Germantown Church of Christ. Born in Norman, OK on April 6, 1934 to Charles and Vida Draper. Mrs. Draper, her son Charles and her daughter Miriam moved to Searcy, Arkansas when she was 10. As a senior in high school she met and then married Charles Olree, who was attending Harding University. Together they lived in several states and spent two years in Bangkok, Thailand. While raising two daughters she earned her degree from Lipscomb University, then directed and taught kindergarten at the BrookMeade Church of Christ in Nashville. In Murray, KY, Miriam loved to sing and host guests in their home. For 30 years at the Glendale Rd. Church of Christ she taught a toddlers Bible class and a ladies class that has been since named after her. She inaugurated their Annual Ladies’ Day Program, worked in VBS, acted in skits and wrote puppet scripts. She was preceded in death by her husband of 66 years, Charles Olree and her daughter Cathy Olree Harding(Jim.) Survivors include her daughter Karen Olree Logan (Granville), a niece LaVera Draper Brown (Terry,) six grandchildren: Barry Logan, Andy Logan, Laurie Dina (Radu), Julie Davis (Paul), Barrett Harding, and Miriam Jean Parrish (Hayden) as well as nine great-grandchildren. The family will receive relatives and friends on Wednesday, June 30 at 10:30 a.m. with a funeral service at 11:30 a.m. in the Riverside Chapel of Memorial Park Funeral Home. Interment to follow at Memorial Park Cemetery, (Rosehill section). To view the webcasted service click the link below: http://webcast.funeralvue.com/events/viewer/56417/hash:E599E736FF179D06 Memorial Park Funeral Home, 5668 Poplar Ave, Memphis, TN, 38119. (901) 767-8930.