Barbara Jean Boyd Marrs, age 86, of Allen, Texas, passed away April 18, 2016.  She was born on April 14, 1930 in Neosho, Missouri; it was a small town with a movie theatre, a Pet Milk industry and located about 30 miles from Joplin, where the stockyards were located.  Her father worked at the stockyards for many years, where he met and became well acquainted with John L. Crocker, a man who later shaped his life.  Her parents met and married in Neosho and lived there until she was nearly seven years old.   Barbara attended first grade there, but she and her family relocated west, since the depression had hit the cattle industry so incredibly hard.  They had heard of the fruit orchards and hops farms in Oregon, so they sold their new little home and set out to escape the jobless era.  It took several days to get there, but they settled in Timber, Oregon; a small rail town with a grade school, high school and a small settlement of businesses.  Her mother became a waitress for a small café and her father went to work for the forest Rangers and the CCCS.  After the school year, they moved on to work at a Hops farm near Forest Grove, Oregon.  Her mother sorted and separated the ripe fruit along with the other women, while her father stood on the tall wagons and tied hops with cord.  After their first season there, Barbara enrolled in a country school about a mile away and the family moved into a five room house, because her father was made a foreman of the operation.  They stayed there through another season and later moved to Portland Oregon; from there they went to Jerome, Idaho and then to Wichita, Kansas and finally to Tulsa, Oklahoma.  Her dad was later employed by John L. Crocker located in Okmulgee, Oklahoma; he purchased livestock at the Fort Worth Stockyards and transported, via truck, the cattle back to Okmulgee.  Barbara was located only a mile from her grade school at that time, and in the fifth grade.  They stayed there for two wonderful years.  The plant in Okmulgee burned and her father was relocated to Okemah, Oklahoma, where he purchased cattle and hogs for the packing plant.  Barbara was in the seventh grade by now and loved the town of Okemah, Oklahoma, especially every year when the rodeo was held and Gene Autry appeared.  After two years they were transferred back to Okmulgee, where they rented a lovely home and had nice neighbors.  They stayed there for about two years and then moved to Tecumseh, Oklahoma.  Bill Crocker soon made her father his chief buyer so they went to Fort Worth quite a bit.  Her parents loved Tecumseh and hoped they would get to stay.  Their wish was granted, and her father retired there.  As Barbara grew up, she met her husband, Clyde Marrs, while attending Tecumseh High School.  Clyde was in the Merchant Marines, and the war was going full steam; he was at sea while she was still in school.  He later came home and attended OBU and they became very close.  By the time Barbara graduated high school in 1948, the two were madly in love and ready to get married.  On July 17, 1948 they eloped to Cushing, Oklahoma.  Clyde’s foster family, the Smiths, gave them a great wedding at the First Baptist Church.  Clyde had a great job with Earl Bray Trucking Company, while Barbara worked for Foresee Chevrolet.  They had a wonderful landlady who was a teacher at the Cushing, High School; they had yard games and activities every evening.  Barbara’s aunt and uncle also lived in Cushing so they enjoyed their time with them as well.  A new opportunity arose and they moved back to Tecumseh to enroll in OBU and work at Sylvania Electronics.  They both graduated from Oklahoma Baptist University.  Clyde retired from Sylvania Electronics years later and they moved to Dallas, Texas; where he was employed by, and later retired from, Texas Instruments.  After retirement Clyde became a teacher.  In the meantime, Barbara was teaching in Richardson, Plano, Allen and McKinney; she loved them all.  Barbara retired from teaching at McKinney Independent School District after fifteen years.  Both Clyde and Barbara held master’s degrees in elementary education and they had a very busy school life.  Their children were now going to college, getting married and having children of their own, so they decided it was time to retire and be good grandparents.  This became the joy of their lives because they had settled on some acreage, had a few horses and numerous other pets.  They lived in the same house in Allen for over forty years.  Barbara was so happy with her family and all the pleasure that they brought her.  She and Clyde were always very happy at accomplishing their goals, their lives were fulfilled and joys overwhelming.  As they moved around and tried to decide what would be best for their family in the long run, they found that as long as you belong to a loving family and try to live each day to the fullest, your life will improve each day and you can then look back at the hard times but mostly see the good ones.  In the sixty four years she and Clyde were together as a couple and family, they were very happy.  A lot of their happiness came from the wonderful people they grew up with, attended school with as well as worked with. They played in a bridge club with former OBU College students for over fifty years.  They are very thankful for all the memories they have shared and the years they spent in Tecumseh, Shawnee and Texas.  Those moments brought them a great amount of pleasure, peace and joy.  

She is survived by her children, Peggy McCullough, Gena Moya and husband Tony, and Dana Adney and husband Terry; grandchildren, Kelly Pope, Monica Amyette, Justin Adney, Carrie Adney Williams, Priscilla McNabb, and Abigail Moya; great-grandchildren, Luke Pope, Meika Pope Zack, Collin Pope, Sammy Amyette, Freddy Amyette, Keefer Adney, Lilly Adney, Eden McNabb, Elijah McNabb, Grayson Adney, and Allison Adney; great-great-grandchild, Kaleb Adney.  

Barbara was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde Edgar Marrs and her parents.  

A funeral service will be held 2:00 p.m., Sunday, April 24, 2016 at Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Home in Allen, Texas.  Interment is to follow at Ridgeview Memorial Park in Allen, Texas.  The family will receive friends during a visitation on Saturday, April 23, 2016 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.