Funeral Services for Malie C. Merrell Key, 89 year old Mustang, Oklahoma resident, are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. Monday October 1, 2012 at the Turrentine-Jackson-Morrow Funeral Chapel at Leonard, Texas. Bro. Bill Shaddox will officiate. Burial will be in the Celeste/Hogeye Cemetery near Celeste, Texas. Family visitation will be one hour prior to services Monday October 1, 2012.
Mrs. Key was born October 4, 1922 at Celeste, Texas. Her parents were William Henry and Martha Mae Rogers Merrell. She was a homemaker, a member of the Baptist Church and attended the Mustang Senior Center in Mustang, OK every day for 12 years. She married H.A. Key in September of 1984 at Greenville, TX. She passed away Wednesday September 26, 2012 at Integris Hospice House in Oklahoma City, OK.
She is survived by her daughter: Beverly Shindler of Mustang, OK; her son: Johnny Carruth of Santa Rosa, N.M.; her daughter: Betty Traylor of Farmersville, TX; her son: Larry D. Carruth of Greenville, TX; her daughter: Christine Thornton of Odessa, TX; her 20 grandchildren, 32 great grandchildren and 2 great-great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by two husbands: John D. Carruth in 1966 and H.A. Key in 1998; two sisters: Zella Jacob and Sue Grisham; four brothers: Dave Merrell, Joe Merrell, Woody Merrell and Annan Merrell.