Marlin Lee Myers
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1942 The Silver Lion
Carrollton High School
Carrollton, Dallas Co., Texas
Senior Class

 

Note: in the yearbook, the photos for Marlin and James Noel are switched.

 

 

ARTICLE

Celebrated Seventh Birthday
Marlin Lee Myers celebrated his seventh birthday last Friday. To assist and make it a wonderful day he had a number of his little friends come and be merry with him. They played many interesting games and had a merry time. A birthday cake and ice cream was served. The favors were allday suckers, gaily dressed in crepe paper. Those present were Mildred Good, Meiriel Montgomery, Jacqueline Kelly, Peggy Jean Perry, Avenelle Whitlock, Eva Louise Myers, Junior Godfrey, Tony Hale, Roy Gravley, Jr., F. M. Good, James Donald Whitlock, Walter Gene Hamilton, Marlin Myers, himself, and his Sunday school teacher, Bessie Mae McRight.

The Carrollton Chronicle - Friday, July 10, 1931
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

 

OBITUARY

Funeral for long-time area resident held Monday
Funeral services were held Monday Nov. 9, for Marlin Lee Myers, 63, a native and lifelong resident of Carrollton.
Born July 5, 1924, Myers was next to the youngest of seven children of George W. and Sallie Fyke Myers. He was a descendant of four pioneer families which settled in this area in the mid-1800s.
Myers graduated from Carrollton High School in 1942. He later became a member of First Baptist Church.
Following high school, he enlisted in the United States Navy. He was discharged in February 1946.
Myers entered the banking business in 1948 and purchased a local variety store a few years later in Old Carrollton Square. In 1961, he returned to the banking business at the North Dallas Bank and Trust. Due to failing health, he retired from the bank in 1983 and was highly respected in finance and banking in the Dallas area.
Myers married Donnie Jean Franklin July 2, 1949 and the couple made their home in Carrollton.
Rev. Mike Young and former coworker Darrell Lafitte officiated at the funeral services held at Rhoton Weiland Chapel.
Pallbearers were Bill and Raymond Myers (Nephews); Bobby Franklin (Brother-in-law); John Koons; Tommy Morgon and D. W> Shaw. Honorary pallbearers were Bill and Jean Gillespie, Jerry and Barbara Bates, Rusty Myers, W. L. Watson, Marshall Bishop and Wendall Shaw.
Interment was at Perry Cemetery.
Myers is survived by his wife, Donnie Myers; children, Brenda Palatnick of Carrollton, Vicki Furstenberg of Dallas, Clint Myers of Shreveport, La., Tina Jennings of Corinth, Marsha Myers of Carrollton and Stacy Burt of The Colony; grandchildren, Melissa and Teresa Myers, Jason and Jerrit Hardin, Jordon Jennings and Brittany Burt; sisters, Eva Norwood of Tyler, Thelma Myers of McKinney and Georgia Ogle of Carrollton.

Farmers Branch Times - November 18, 1987; Page 2
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

 

 

MARLIN LEE MYERS
US NAVY
JUL 3, 1924 - NOV 8, 1987

 


MYERS
MARLIN LEE - JULY 3, 1924 - NOV 8, 19878
DONNIE FRANKLIN - OCT 5, 1932 - BLANK
JULY 2, 1949

Perry Cemetery, Carrollton, Dallas County, Texas
 

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