Myrtle Emma Thetford was born July 10, 1903 near Snyder in Oklahoma Territory, to Ella and Charles Hickman and passed away November 13, 1993 in the Sayre Memorial Hospital at the age of 90 years, 4 months and 3 days.

Myrtle graduated from Snyder High School and then attended Southwestern Teachers College in Weatherford, Oklahoma. She taught in a rural school near Mountain Park called Forty-One and also at Doxey. She married Clayton William Thetford on March 2, 1927 in Snyder, Oklahoma. They lived in Snyder before moving to the Doxey Community and later to Berlin in 1936 to make their home and where she resided until moving to a Sayre Nursin Facility in 1985.

She was a longtime member of the Berlin Methodist Church.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband and an infant granddaughter.

Services were at 2:00 p.m., Monday, November 15, 1993 at the Rose Chapel officiated by Rev. Roberta Ganzer. Interment was in the Sayre-Doxey Cemetery, Sayre, Beckham County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service, Sayre.

Survivors include 1 daughter/son-in-law, Norma and D.P. Williams, Pampa, Texas; 3 sons, Melvin and Gail Thetford, Sayre; Joice and LaWanda Thetford, Elk City, Oklahoma, Truman Thetford, Sayre; 1 sister, Maye Schoolcraft, Artesia, New Mexico; 6 grandchildren, Randall Williams, Junior Thetford, Gary Don Thetford, Terry Thetford, Tammy Kile, Jaanna Ochoa; 6 great grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.