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Murel Bontrager © Enid News and Eagle 11-16-2012 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
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ENID, Okla. — CHEROKEE — Service to celebrate Murel Bontrager’s life will be 10:30 a.m. Monday, Nov. 19, 2012, at First Christian Church, Cherokee, with Rev. Tom Stanley officiating. Burial will follow in Cherokee Municipal Cemetery, with arrangements by Lanman Funeral Home Inc., Cherokee. Viewing 2-5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. (www.lanmanmemorials.com)
Murel Bontrager, 94, passed on to his heavenly home on Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. He was born to Abe and Bey Bontrager on Nov. 23, 1917, and was raised in Cherokee.
Murel graduated from Cherokee High School.
He married Maycel Jenlink in Cherokee on May 26, 1940. They shared 72 years together.
Murel was baptized in 1931 by Rev. Smith at the First Christian Church of Cherokee.
As a young man, he worked at Cook’s Grocery, where he learned the butchering trade from his father-in-law, Albert Jenlink.
During World War II, he was denied enlistment into the U.S. Army due to poor eyesight, so he went to work at Boeing Aircraft in Wichita to help with the war effort.
Murel’s dream and goal was to farm the land and raise cattle. The family farmed and ranched in Perry, Guthrie, Dacoma and then Cherokee.
Murel and Maycel opened the Bontrager Meat Processing in 1975, in Cherokee, while continuing to farm and ranch. He loved watching the new baby calves arrive each year.
He was a loving and faithful husband and father. Murel lost his own father at the early age of 8 years old, when he was killed in an accident, tearing down the original First Christian Church in Cherokee. His mother raised three boys by herself.
Murel served the Lord in many capacities at various churches as elder, deacon, Sunday school superintendent, chairman of the board, class president, trustee and was on various committees.
He is survived by his wife, Maycel; daughter, Sherry Canning and husband G.W.; sons, Steve Bontrager and wife Tava, and Stan Bontrager; four grandchildren, Shelley Berryman and husband Robert, Buddy Canning and wife Michelle, Stephani Yunker and husband Lawrence, and Keli Woods and husband Kyle; 12 great-grandchildren, Brittney Jarnagin and husband Brody, Brayden Berryman, Brianna Berryman, Christa Otterman, Christan Otterman, Brittany Torres and husband James, Brooklyn Canning, Braxton Canning, Camber Canning, Britton Yunker, Briley Yunker, Kaylen Woods, and one on the way; brother, A.J. Bontrager; sisters-in-law, Frances Bontrager, Floy Whittet, and Joan McFadin and husband Bub; and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by infant twin sisters, Blondina Bey and Berdina May; brother, Arley Bontrager; brother-in-law, Billy Whittet; brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Glenn and Helen Jenlink; and sister-in-law, Frances Bontrager.
Memorials may be given to First Christian Church through the funeral home.
The family deeply appreciates the care given to Dad by Keshia Cunningham, Miranda Ocobock, Faunia Youngblood, Connie Ocobock, Sandy Hutton, Leigh Ann Rohdes, Jennifer Whiteside, Hospice Circle of Love and Home Health care workers.
(Submitted by family)
Maycel Jenlink and Murel Bontrager © Enid News and Eagle 06-06-2010 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Mr. and Mrs. Murel Bontrager celebrated their 70th anniversary May 29 with family at their home in Cherokee.
Murel Bontrager and Maycel Jenlink were married May 26, 1940, at the First Christian Church parsonage in Cherokee. They honeymooned in Carlsbad, N.M.
They have lived in Cherokee, Thomas, Wellington, Kan., Perry, Guthrie and Dacoma throughout their married life.
He has farmed and ranched most of his life, as well as operating a meat processing business in Cherokee for many years.
She has been a homemaker and worked as a legal secretary.
Their children are Stan Bontrager and Steve and Tava Bontrager, all of Cherokee, and G.W. and Sherry Canning, Guthrie. They have four grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
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