Wanda Kerr Marrs was born April 19, 1919, in Dibble, Oklahoma, to Alf and Mattie Kerr.  She grew up riding horses, working on the family farm, and studying diligently.  After graduating as the valedictorian from Washington High School, she took her B.A. at the University of Oklahoma, focusing her course work on English and history.  She married Alton Marrs in 1938 and was a devoted wife and a devoted mother to their four children. 
Wanda and Alton were active members of McFarlin Memorial Methodist Church and active supporters of the University School, which each of their children attended.  They loved being part of a dance club, going to OU football and basketball games and to their sons’ youth league baseball games, attending plays on the OU campus, taking family camping trips across the country, seeing all their children graduate from the University of Oklahoma, traveling to England and France, and hosting family gatherings at home. 
Wanda was an ardent reader of fiction, biography, and political news, a crack hand at crossword puzzles, and an accomplished seamstress, who made clothes for herself and her daughters.  She was also an ardent watcher of political programs on television, and she never failed to vote in elections. 

After her children were in college, Wanda became the postmistress at the Oklahoma Center for Continuing Education and developed many friendships there.  She and Alton remained very active during their retirement years as long as health permitted, walking miles each day together and making regular visits to their far-flung children. 

Wanda died at The Arbor, in Ridgeland, Mississippi, near the homes of her daughters, on March 30, as a result of Alzheimer’s disease. 

She was preceded in death by her husband, by her son Douglas, and by six siblings. 

She is survived by her daughters Suzanne and LuAnn Marrs, by her son Richard Marrs, his wife Laura, and their children Andrew and Christopher, by her sister Frances Armstrong, and by many nieces and nephews. 

All remember her with love and with gratitude for her intellect, her generosity of spirit, her courage in the face of loss, her strongly held convictions, her ready laugh, and her zest for life.  

Memorial gifts may be made to the Frances Ranson Dunham Scholarship Fund at the University of Oklahoma or to the Alzheimer’s Foundation. 

Family will greet friends from 6-8:00 p.m. on Thursday, April 5, at the Havenbrook Funeral Home, in Norman, Oklahoma.  Services will be held on Friday, April 6, at 10:00 a.m. at the Havenbrook Funeral Home Chapel.  Arrangements for Wanda and her family were placed in the care of the Vice Family at Havenbrook Funeral Home of Norman. 

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