GENE MICHAEL

© Published in Enid, OK. News

Sat., October 14, 2006

Submitted by: Sylva Rhodes

GENE MICHAEL

Funeral services for Gene Michael, 80, will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Oct. 16, 2006, in the Cherokee First Baptist Church with the Rev. Tom Cooksey officiating. Burial will be in the Cherokee Municipal Cemetery under the direction of the Goodwin Funeral Home of Cherokee.

Visitation at the funeral home will be from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.

He was born Sept. 11, 1926, in Crescent to John Arthur and Mary Mabel Folger Michael and died Oct. 12, 2006, at his home in Cherokee.

He attended rural schools in Guthrie and graduated from Crescent High School where he was active in football and sports. After graduation he served in the Merchant Marines.

He and Betty Yenzer were married Dec. 30, 1950, in the First Baptist Church in Crescent, and moved to Cherokee in 1957. He worked for Davon Oil and then for Zenith, which later became Oklahoma Natural Gas, retiring in 1986 as local manager.

He was baptized at an early age in the First Baptist Church in Crescent and was a member of the Cherokee First Baptist Church and Men’s Sunday School Class, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, United Fund Member, Scoutmaster, RA Leader at First Baptist Church and was on the Cherokee Fire Department for 21 years, retiring as fire chief.

He was very active in his sons’ and grandchildren’s church and school activities, always attending ball games whether grade school, high school or college.

He was an avid gardener and raised beautiful flowers.

Surviving are his wife Betty, of the home; two sons, Forrest and Kirsten Michael and Paul and Belinda Michael of Cherokee; grandchildren, Eric and Natalie Michael of Huntsville, TX, Stephen and Pamela Michael of Oklahoma City, Kendra Michael of Alva; Shelby Michael of Cherokee and a sister, Fern and Shelby Collinsworth of Palm Springs, CA.

He was preceded in death by his parents, one sister and one brother.

Memorials may be given in his memory to Alfalfa County EMS training fund through Goodwin Funeral Home. This fund benefits the ambulance, police department and fire department.

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