In Watonga, Oklahoma, Lawrence and Eula Burton became the proud parents of a baby girl on October 15, 1936. They named her Estella B., but she was nicknamed "Boogie."

Estella accepted Christ at an early age, and her family moved to Muskogee, where she attended Muskogee Public Schools, ultimately graduating from Historic Manual Training High School with the proud Class of 1955.

She met and later married Harold Duncan and they remained married for 55 years until his passing on Thanksgiving morning of 2007.

Mrs. Duncan worked as a domestic worker during her life. She was a devoted member of Union Baptist Church in Muskogee until it closed, after which she united with Central Missionary Baptist Church, where she remained a member until her health began to fail and she moved to Oklahoma City to live with her daughter.

After 74 years, the sun set on Estella's life on Sunday, October 24, 2010 in Oklahoma City. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Harold Duncan, her parents, Lawrence and Eula Mae Burton, step-mother, Jo Anne Burton, an aunt, Ila Mae [Duty] Williams, who raised her, her sisters, Nona Mae Scroggins, Irene Bryant, and Cleoma Hunt, her brothers, Arlo Burton [Sonny], Lorenzo Burton, Isaiah Burton, Lawrence Burton,Jr., and Melvin Burton.

Remaining to lament her death; her daughters, Shirlene and Clarence Wright, Oklahoma City and Jamesetta and James Bruner, Del City, Oklahoma; her sisters, Shirley and Elton Prim, El Reno, Oklahoma, Barbara and Charles Brooks, Los Angeles, California, Carol Ann Mosley, Cathleen Mosley, Yolanda Orange, all of Oklahoma City, and Patricia Mosley, Dallas, Texas; her brothers, Marvin Mosley and Calvin Mosley, Oklahoma City, Richard Mosley, Kansas City, Missouri, and Aaron Weathersby, Oklahoma City; her grandchildren, James Allen Dewayne and Keli Wright, Choctaw, Oklahoma, Malisa Wright, Oklahoma City, Antoine Bradley, Shay Quaina Payne, Marranesheia and Kaleem Abdullah, all of Oklahoma City; 21 great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

Her Homegoing Service will be held on Monday, November 1, 2010 at 11:00 A.M. in the Central Missionary Baptist Church. Reverend Ray K. Gaines, Pastor, will officiate.

She will then rest in the National Cemetery with her husband, at Fort Gibson, Oklahoma.

You may visit Mrs. Duncan, as she slumbers at the funeral home on Sunday from 1:00 P.M. until 4:00 P.M.