IN LOVING MEMORY OF MARTY MYERS AND HER SERVICE TO ALFALFA COUNTY AND THE OKGENWEB PROJECTS!   WE LOVE AND MISS YOU!

Marthesia "Marty" Myers

January 7, 1927 – February 22, 2015

Marthesia Myers

Jackie, Monty, Marthesia, and Bethel Myers

Jackie, Monty, Marthesia, and Bethel Myers

Marthesia "Marty" Myers

Cherokee-Memorial service for Marty, 88, will be Thursday, February 26, 2015 at 1:00 p.m. at Riverside Church of Christ in Burlington.

Marty has chosen to be cremated and her remains will be laid to rest in the Cherokee Municipal Cemetery beside her husband, Bethel Lee Myers. Marty was born January 7, 1927 on the Plum Blossom Farm near Lookout to William and Annie McDaniel Knabe and passed from this life at the Cherokee Manor on February 22, 2015 from cancer. She attended school at the Moundridge School and high school at Freedom. Marty married Bethel Lee Myers at Medicine Lodge, Kansas on January 29, 1947. They lived in California and Alva, Oklahoma before moving to Cherokee in 1957. Marty worked as a waitress at various restaurants and later as a bookkeeper for the Home Appliance Store for twelve years. She served as Director/Librarian at the Cherokee City and County Library and resigned in 1997. She was a member of the Business and Professional Women, Alfalfa County Democrat Women, The Salt Plains Bowling Association, The Alfalfa County Historical Society and charter member of the Salty Sam’s Camping Club. She volunteered at the Senior Citizens Site, Alfalfa County Museum, Cherokee Main Street/Chamber of Commerce and Friends of the Library.

Marty was preceded in death by her husband, Bethel Lee Myers in 2012; her parents; sister, Viola Knabe; brother, Gilbert Knabe; granddaughter, Shay Leah Myers and daughter-in-law, Trina Kay Myers.

Marty leaves to mourn, her three sons and their wives, Monty Myers and wife, Dottie of Fresno, California, Jack Myers of Cherokee, Randy Myers and wife, Mary C. of Las Vegas, Nevada; three grandchildren, Kimmy Myers Dotterer and husband, Tim of Norman, Amber Beth Myers Smith and husband, Aaron of Ponca City and Greg Myers of Elk City; two step grandchildren, John Greggs and Ning and Jamie Jones of Fresno, California; three great grandchildren, Tate Christopher Davis and Nickson James Davis of Norman and Ethan Ray Smith of Ponca City; eight step great grandchildren, Jimmy Greggs, Timothy Greggs, Brittney Greggs, Trinity Jordan, Kayla Rapp, David Ray Rapp, Addison Rapp and Ivan Bousana, all of Fresno, California.

Bethel Lee Myers

Cherokee-Memorial service for Bethel Lee Myers will be at the Burlington Riverside Church of Christ at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 29, 2012 with Jeff Keele and Lanny Jobe officiating. 

Bethel requested cremation, and a private family burial will be held at a later date.  Bethel was born on May 23, 1926 to Harry Myers and Cleta Yates Myers on the family farm east of Hardtner, Kansas and passed from this life on August 26, 2012 at his home in Cherokee.  He attended Hardtner schools and was baptized at the Methodist Church in Hardtner.  He entered the U.S. Army at the age of eighteen and was stationed at Camp Hood, Texas for basic training.  He was then sent overseas to serve with the 3rd Army 631st Battalion in France.  After the war he married Marthesia Knabe on January 29, 1947.  They lived in California and Alva before moving to Cherokee in 1957.  Bethel worked for Wood Appleman Company before buying the home appliance store in Cherokee.  He and Marthesia also operated Alley Dry Cleaners, B & M Laundry and B & M Service.  He was a charter member of the Salty Sams Club, a member of the VFW Post #2847 and was also a retired fireman.  Bethel also served as a volunteer at the Senior Citizens Site.

He leaves to mourn his wife, Marthesia; three sons and their wives, Monty and Dottie Myers of Fresno, California, Jack Myers of Cherokee and Randy and Mary Myers of Las Vegas, Nevada; daughter-in-law, Judy Myers of Elk City; three grand children, Kimmy Myers Dotterer and her husband, Tim of Norman, Amber Beth Myers Smith and her husband, Aaron of Ponca City and Greg Myers of Corpus Christie, Texas; three great grandchildren, Tate Christopher Davis and Nickson James Davis and Tyler Dotterer; five step grandchildren, John Greggs and wife, Ning of Fresno, California, David Rapp and wife, Jamie of Fresno, California, Stephanie Strasner and husband, Jarod, Wade Dotterer and wife, Sarah; fourteen step great grandchildren, Jimmy Greggs, Timothy Greggs, Brittney Greggs, Trinity Jordan and David Ray Rapp, Kayla Rapp and Addison Rapp, Ivan Bousana, all of Fresno, California, Skylar Strasner, Shirree Strasner and Trent Strasner of Norman; two sisters, Hazel Case of Alva and Viriginia Hicks of Dallas, Texas; one brother, John Myers and wife, Joan of Kiowa, Kansas; special friends, Dennis Pierson and Carolyn Green.

He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Virgil, Forest and Donald Myers; one daughter-in-law, Trina Myers and granddaughter, Shay Lee Myers.