Nanette Tyer Rutherford

© Tahlequah Daily Press Tahlequah, Oklahoma September 26, 2011

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

TAHLEQUAH — Services for Nanette Tyer Rutherford will be held on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2011, at 2 p.m., at the Reed-Culver Chapel, with Pastor Perry Jamison of Victorious Life World Outreach officiating. Visitation will be held on Monday, Sept. 26, from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m., with the family present from 6-8 p.m.

Interment will take place at Tahlequah City Cemetery. Services have been entrusted to Reed-Culver Funeral Home of Tahlequah.

Pallbearers for Nan include T.J. Rutherford, Larry Ashmore Jr., Clint Garland, Colton Hamby, Joel Sherrill, Steve Worth, and Raymond Thompson. Honorary pallbearers include Steve Butler, Larry Shankle, Jamie Rush, Brendon Ashmore, Bow Hunter Rush, and Ray Southerland.

Nanette (Tyer) Rutherford was born on May 5, 1927, in Ardmore, the daughter of Lee Linus and Pearl (Fraley) Tyer.

She graduated from Ardmore High School.

On Sept. 13, 1945, she made the trip out to Las Vegas, and there she married the love of her life, Paul Edward Rutherford, the man she would share 66 years of married life with. Together they raised three children, Paula, Patti, and Tom.

Nan was the co-owner of Thunderbird Bowling Lanes in Tahlequah from 1960 until 2004. Besides op erating the business, Nan was an exceptional bowler in her own right, and bowled in leagues and tournaments.

Nan was gifted at the piano and loved music, a gift she shared with her children. Nan and Paul loved to spend an evening together square dancing.

She enjoyed reading and working puzzles. She was feisty in spirit and had the most wonderful sense of humor and the laugh to go with it. She loved her husband and children and grandchildren. Any time spent with her family, was a great day for Nan.

Nan was a Christian and Methodist by faith, and the Lord called Nan to her heavenly home on Thursday Sept., 22, 2011, at her home in Park Hill, surrounded by her loving family. She was 84 years old. Nan will be greatly missed by her many family and friends she has made through the years.

Nan is preceded in death by her parents; one sister, Carolyn Loy; and one brother, Linus Tyer.

Those left to cherish her memory include her three loving children, Paula Butler and husband Steve of Nashville, Tenn., Patti Shankle and husband Larry of Tahlequah, and Tom Rutherford and wife Elaina of Park Hill. Her legacy lives on in her four grandchildren, Larry Ashmore Jr. and wife Tessy of Coral Springs, Fla., Marcie Rush and husband Jamie of Peoria, T.J. Rutherford and fiancé Hailee Grimes of Park Hill, and Holli Rutherford of Park Hill.

She also leaves four great-grandchildren, Brendon Ashmore, Emma Ashmore, Bow Hunter Rush and Nikota Rush; as well as many nieces, nephews, cousins and a host of friends and loved ones. Online condolences for the family are located at www.reed culver.com.

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