Ethel Mae Hays Myers © Enid News and Eagle 12-30-2013 Submitted by: Glenn
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Funeral for Ethel Mae Myers, 90-year-old Stillwater resident, will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 31, 2013, in First Baptist Church of Garber. The Rev. Tom LeGrand will officiate. Burial will follow in Enid Cemetery under direction of Henninger-Hinson Funeral Home.
Ethel Mae Hays was born January 4, 1923, in Garfield County, Oklahoma, to Olen E. and Marion Flossie (Remington) Hays and died Saturday, December 28, 2013, in Stillwater, Oklahoma. She grew up and attended school in Oklahoma and Missouri. She was a tomboy who loved horses and played the guitar.
On February 20, 1939, she married the love of her life, Donald Paul Myers, at First Christian Church in Oklahoma City. They farmed near Kremlin before moving to the Garber-Covington oil fields, where Paul worked for Sinclair Oil. They raised their family there, and continued to farm there after Paul’s retirement. In 2005, they moved to Stillwater to be near their youngest son and his family. They were married 68 years.
Ethel Mae was a member of First Baptist Church of Garber, working with the children and women’s ministries.
She is survived by her sons, Donald (Carl Lou) Myers of Ponca City and Eldon Myers and his wife Nancy of Stillwater. She has six grandchildren: Carla Strait and husband Stan of Ponca City, Delia Huff and husband Michael of Edmond, Jeff Myers and wife Caroline of Louisburg, Kansas, Kaela Schilke and husband Aaron of Wichita, Kansas, Matthew Myers and Mark Myers, both of Stillwater. Also surviving are eight great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband and her daughter, Mary Ann Myers.
Memorials may be made through Henninger-Hinson to the Gideons. Condolences may be made to the family at www.enidwecare.com.
(Submitted by family)
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