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The funeral for John O. Hyer, 95, will be 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church, Fairview. The Rev. David Mendenhall will officiate. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc.
He was born Feb. 19, 1910, in Summersville, Mo., to W. G. and Dora Meador Hyer and died Wednesday, June 29, 2005, at Fairview Fellowship Home.
He moved with his parents to Canton at age three months. He attended Leonel School before moving to Southard, where he graduated from high school in 1929. He worked at a service station prior to attending Southwestern State Teachers College at Weatherford, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1933. He later taught at Southard High School.
He married Editha Sprowls in 1933. He worked two years as a billing clerk for the U.S. Gypsum Co. He taught for nine years at several schools in Oklahoma. During World War II, he resigned and took a course in aircraft inspection under the U.S. government. After leaving Stillwater, he was an airplane inspector at the Douglas plant in Tulsa, where he worked on the B-26 as shipping and recieving inspector. He taught for two years at St. George Island, Alaska, before returning to Britton in 1947. They operated a help yourself laundry before moving to Arizona, where he taught school at Ash Fork for two years, Eloy for nine years, Washington School in Phoenix for two years, and then Cortez High School in Glendale for 14 years. He worked as a counselor as well as an arts and crafts supervisor at the Good News Camp for Child Evangelism Fellowship.
Following his retirement in 1975, they moved to Table Rock Lake, north of Eureka Springs, Ark., where they operated a week-long camp for underprivileged children. She died in 1989.
He returned to Phoenix, then moved to Grove in December 1989. He married Melva Nolting June 6, 1990. They lived in Grove for two years, moving to Fairview in 1992. She died Feb. 14, 1995. He entered Fairview Fellowship Home in 2001. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Fairview.
Surviving are three stepsons, Gerry Nolting of Tulsa, Curtis Nolting and Scott Nolting, both of Lahoma; three stepgrandchildren; and two stepgreat-grandchildren.
In addition to two wives he was preceded in death by one son, one brother and one sister.
Memorials may be made through the funeral home to First Baptist Church, or Fairview Fellowship Home.
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