Enid News and Eagle (OK)
Deceased: Eddie Dale Metzler
Date: August 19, 2009

OKEENE — Graveside service for Eddie Dale Metzler will be 10 a.m. today, Aug. 20, 2009, in Roselawn Cemetery, east and south of Okeene. Pastor Bennet Peters will officiate. Arrangements are by Lanman Funeral Home, Inc. Memories may be shared with the family at http://www.lanmanmemorials.com/. The casket will be open 8-9 a.m. today at the funeral home. There will be no viewing at the graveside service.

Eddie Dale Metzler was born Jan. 9, 1937, in Okeene, the son of Eddie and Elsie Marie Bierig Metzler and departed this life Monday, Aug. 17, 2009, at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City.

He went to Deep Creek School for eight years then graduated from Okeene High School in 1955. After he earned an associate degree in engineering at Oklahoma A&M (OSU), he joined the U.S. Air Force and was stationed at Tinker Air Force Base in Oklahoma City. After his tour of duty in the U.S. Air Force, he returned to Okeene to farm with his dad.

Eddie Dale and Mary Ann Weigand were married in 1960 and to this union one daughter, Melonee, was born. The farming operation included a dairy and Eddie Dale was a welder known for his fabrications made of metal. He was also the Vermeer Bailer Dealer for a number of years. He was very active in the American Agriculture Movement and had taken a tractor to Washington, D.C., to take part in the activities there.

Those who preceded him in death are his parents.

Those left to cherish his memory are his daughter, Melonee Metzler, of Enid; a dear friend, Faye Haffner; as well as other special people in his life.

Memorials may be made to Okeene FFA or Zion Baptist Church through the funeral home.

(Paid Obit 8-20-1)

Section: Obituaries

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