Obituary

KOURTNEY LYNN BRACKETT WAS BORN FEBRUARY 27, 1986. SHE HAS OLDER SISTER NAMED KIMBERLY FORD-CRELIA AND A YOUNGER BROTHER NAMED KODY WAYNE BOATRIGHT. KOURTNEY GREW UP IN ARDMORE OKLAHOMA. GRADUATED ARDMORE HIGH SCHOOL IN 2004. SHE MET AND MARRIED BRENT CARGAL FEBRUARY 17, 2007, THEY MOVED TO MANNSVILLE, OKLAHOMA. KOURTNEY LOVED GOING TO THE RACES AND WATCHING BRENT AND HER BROTHER KODY RACE DIRT TRACK. SHE LOVED TO HELP HER DAD ON HIS 64 CHEVY NOVA. SHE WASNT A GIRLIE GIRL, BUT WHEN SHE GOT DRESSED UP SHE WAS BEAUTIFUL , EVEN BEAUTFUL WITH JUST A PONYTAIL, JEANS AND A TSHIRT .SHE LOVED JUST BE WITH FAMILY DOING ANYTHING.
KOURTNEY STARTED TO HAVE HEADACHES AS EARLY AS AUGUST 2006, WE NEVER THOUGHT ANYTHING ABOUT THEM BECAUSE THEY WERE NOT SEVERE HEADACHES. AROUND OCTOBER 30TH 2007 SHE WAS HAVING A HEADACHE THAT WOULDNT GO AWAY, SO WE TOOK HER TO THE ER. THEY WERE GOING TO GIVE HER A SHOT FOR MIGRAINES, I TOLD THEM I WANTED BLOOD WORK, AND A CAT SCAN. ON THE CAT SCAN THEY FOUND SHE HAD A 'BLOCKAGE'. THEY SENT US TO ANOTHER DOCTOR THAT ORDERED A MRI, AND FOIUND THAT SHE HAD A TUMOR OF SOME SORT. THIS WAS NOVEMEBER 4TH 2007, WE HAD SERGERY SET FOR NOVEMBER 29TH 2007, ON NOVEMEBER 15TH, HER AND I WAS RUNNING ERRANDS AND SHE WENT TO STAND AND WALK, AND STARTED TO SHUFFLE HER FEET LIKE AN OLD MAN. I CALLED HER DOCTOR AND THEY SAID 'YOU CAN BRING HER IN TODAY (NOV 15TH THURSDAY) OR YOU CAN BRING HER IN MONDAY'...I SAID 'WELL MY MAIN WORRY IS'...AND SHE CUT ME OFF SHE SAID 'ITS NOT LIKE HER TUMOR WILL BURST'...I SAID 'OK THATS MY WORRY, WE WILL BE THER IN A FEW HOURS'. (WE WERE IN ARDMORE AND HAD TO DRIVE TO OU IN OKC)...WE GOT TO OU AT 8:30PM, THEY FINALLY CALLED HER BACK AT 10-1030, HER DAD AND HER HUSBAND BRENT WENT BACK TO THE ER WITH HER, I STAYED IN WAITING ROOM, AT 11:00PM HER TUMOR BURST AND SHE STARTED TO HAVE A SEISURE. KOURTNEY NEVER SPOKE AGAIN, WE WERE WITH HER FROM NOVEMEBER 15TH 2007 TO APRIL 2008 AT OU WITH HER, NEVER LEAVING HER SIDE (ONLY TO EAT AND SHOWER)..THEN THEY HAD US GO TO A NURSING HOME, THEN FROM THE NURSING HOME BACK TO OU, THEN TO ANOTHER NURSING HOME, THEN BACK TO OU, JUNE 17, 2008 KOURTNEY LOST HER FIGHT TO BRAIN CANCER , SHE DIED WITH A ROOM FULL OF LOVED ONES AT 9:10 AM, IN MUSKOGEE OKLAHOMA. SHE WENT VERY PEACEFUL AND BEAUTIFULLY. I WILL FOREVER MISS MY LIL GIRL, WHOM I THOUGHT WAS MY SHADOW, BUT I GUESS MAYBE I WAS HERS.