Bertha Mae McREE

Enid News and Eagle Enid, Garfield Co., OK

12-01-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

The funeral for Bertha Mae McRee, 77, will be 2 p.m. today, Dec. 2, 2008, at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel. The Rev. Tom Arnould will officiate. Burial will be in the Chapel of Memorial Park Cemetery. She was born Sept. 22, 1931, in Oklahoma City to Berton Alonzo and Lois Green Warner and died Sunday, Nov. 30, 2008, at Integris Bass Baptist Health Center. She grew up in Oklahoma City, graduating from Classen High School in 1950. She worked for Oster Tag Opticians.

She married Bill McRee Sept. 22, 1950, in El Reno. She was a homemaker. They moved to Enid in 1969, and in 1975 she went to work for 3-E Company and later for Frye Office Systems. He died Feb. 9, 1984. She worked 20 years for Advance Food Co., retiring in 2002.

Surviving are her children, Patricia McMullen of Enid, Deborah Preble of Piedmont, Scott McRee of Burkburnett, Texas, and Steven McRee of Enid; eight grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren. In addition to her husband, Bill, she was preceded in death by two brothers and one siste