Tecumseh resident Myrtle Campbell Kochick died Wednesday, January 3, in Tecumseh at the age of 89.

Myrtle was born November 15, 1917, in Berlin, Oklahoma, to Clifton and Maude Bruce Campbell.

She was a 1935 graduate of Berlin High School. She later graduated from Blackwood-Davis Business College in Oklahoma City.

On October 10, 1944, she married Michael S. Kochick Jr. He preceded her in death in 2003.

After her marriage, she returned to Berlin, where along with her family she farmed and raised cattle before moving to her present home in Tecumseh in 1952. Myrtle was a homemaker, as well as an avid gardener and plant enthusiast. When she was younger she enjoyed reading and traveling . At the age of 60 she developed a talent for landscape painting.

Preceding her in death were her parents; her husband; a granddaughter, Lisa Cluts; two sisters and one brother.

Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Wanda and Thomas O'Neil of Norman and Mary Ann and Mike Stevens of Tecumseh; four sons and daughters-in-law, Edward S. and Pat Kochick of Oklahoma City, Clifford and Marie Kochick of Tecumseh, James and Jo Kochick of Enid and Michael and Carol Kochick of Cairo, Egypt; fifteen grandchildren, twenty great-grandchildren, four sisters and two brothers.

Service will be 3:00 p.m. today at Cooper Funeral Chapel with Roger Klopfenstein officiating.

Burial will be at Brown Cemetery.

Published January 6, 2007.