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© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Tuesday, 20 December 2005 Fred Vance Sawyer Funeral service for Fred Vance Sawyer, age 92, of Cyril, Oklahoma, will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 22, 2005, in the Full Gospel Holiness Church of Cyril. Rev. Bill Patterson will officiate and Rev. Donnie Miller will assist. Fred Vance Sawyer was born the son of Charles William Sawyer and Ruth Dark Sawyer on June 3, 1913, in Butler, Missouri. He died on December 19, 2005 at his home in Cyril. Interment will be in the Celestial Gardens Cemetery. Service will be under the direction of the McRay's Cyril Funeral Home. |
February 23, 2018 Phillip Andrew "Bud" Sawyer Phillip Andrew Sawyer known as Bud to friends and family went to be with his Lord Jesus February 23, 2018. He was born to Clara Alice [Brown] Sawyer and Sneed Sawyer October 26, 1926 on the family farm south of Cyril, Oklahoma. He passed away at the Oklahoma Heart Hospital in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Bud grew up on the family farm south of Cyril and attended school in Cyril through his sophomore year. His mother died when he was 14 and shortly thereafter, his dad sold the family farm and moved to the Lawton area, so Bud lived with his Aunt Sally and continued his schooling in Cyril. When he was in his junior year of high school he and his dad move to a farm in the Noble, Oklahoma area. While attending Noble high school he met the love of his life Novalee Myers, but their romance was interrupted because he was drafted into the US Army before the end of his senior year. He served proudly in Japan during World War II. After his discharge, he and Novalee married on November 17, 1946 in Norman, Oklahoma. They resided in Norman three years where Bud was employed at the Naval Air Base in the transportation department. One of his work duties was as a driver for VIPs who flew in and out of that airport. One person he enjoyed chauffeuring many times was OU football coach Bud Wilkinson. In 1950 Bud, Novalee and their baby girl Arlinda Kay moved to Cyril where he went to work at the APCO refinery for the next 33 years. Bud's passion was farming, so in 1953 he moved his family which now included a baby boy, Wesley Andrew, to their farm located between Apache and Cyril and they lived there many happy years. He is preceded in death by his parents Clara and Sneed, his wife, Novalee Sawyer, brothers Bill Sawyer and Orville Sawyer, sisters Catherine Burdick, Orpha Copeland, Wanda Elliott and son Wesley Sawyer. He is survived by his daughter Arlinda Fields and husband Larry of Oklahoma City, grandsons Scott Sawyer wife Kathy of Lexington, Oklahoma, Joshua Sawyer wife Amber of Stratford, Oklahoma, Mark Fields of Mustang, Oklahoma, and Michael Fields wife Jacqueline of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, 15 great grandchildren and 5 great great grandchildren. A remembrance service will be held Thursday, March 1st at 1:00 P.M., at the First Assembly of God Church in Cyril, with Pastor John West officiating and assisted by Pastor Randy Cocheraan. interment will follow at Celestial Gardens Cemetery under the direction of Cyril Funeral Home. |
May 23, 2015 Novalee [Myers] Sawyer Novalee Sawyer of Apache, Oklahoma was born April 29, 1928 in Lexington, OK to Charley Burt and Mary Grace [Howery] Myers. She passed away May 23rd at her daughter's home in Oklahoma City at the age of 87. Novalee graduated high school in Noble, OK and married Phillip Andrew "Bud" Sawyer on November 17, 1946 in Norman, OK. They moved to Cyril in 1950 where Bud was employed by APCO refinery before moving to the rural Apache area in 1953 where they farmed for many years before retiring. Novalee was a true farmer's wife, she helped Bud on the farm with all kinds of work. She was a member of the Farmerette Club and enjoyed quilting and reading her Bible. She was a faithful member of the Cyril Assembly of God where she had served as president of the Women's Mission Group and taught the Senior Adult Sunday School class. She is survived by: Her husband, P.A "Bud" Sawyer, of the home, 1 daughter and her husband-Arlinda and Larry Fields Oklahoma City, OK, 1 son and his wife-Wes and Gayle Sawyer Wanette, OK, 4 grandsons-Scott and wife, Kathy Sawyer, Joshua and wife, Amber Sawyer, Mark Fields, Michael and wife, Jacqueline Fields, 4 step-grandchildren-Jesse Lehman, Tina Poteet, Shelly Langford, Amy Lehman, 29 great-grandchildren, 14 great-great grandchildren and one on the way, 1 brother and his wife-Tom and Mary Myers Seattle, WA, 1 sister and her husband-Ruby and Richard Brindley Noble, OK. She was preceded in death by: Her parents, 1 grandson- Shane Wesley Sawyer, 2 brothers- James Myers, Donald Myers, 4 sisters- Mary Caldwell, Carolyn Cable, Charlene Haskins and a baby sister, Deloris Myers. Funeral services will be held Tuesday, May 26th at 1:00 P.M. at the Cyril Assembly of God with Pastor John West officiating and assisted by Pastor Randy Cocheran. Burial will follow in Celestial Gardens Cemetery in Cyril under the direction of Crews Funeral Home. |
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