© Guy Bowen

Obit posted by Glenn

Enid Morning News
April 1980

Miss Chyrel Kaye Gritz, 29, died suddenly Wednesday at her home in Hennessey.

Her service will be at 2 PM Friday in the Church of the Nazarene at Hennessey with the Rev. Vida Robinson officiating. Burial will be in the Hennessey Cemetery under direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.

Miss Gritz was born September 10, 1950, in Enid, and spent most of her life in the Hennessey area where she attended school, graduating from Hennessey high school in 1969. She did babysitting for several people in the Hennessey area, and attended the Church of the Nazarene at Hennessey.

Survivors include her mother, Wilma Gritz, of the home; a brother, Rex, Hennessey; four sisters, Pat Howry, Watonga, Debbie Buhrman, Casper, Wyoming, Judy Powell, Hennessey, and Janet Tambugna, Pampa, Texas; two step – brothers, Bill Boyd, Canadian, Texas, and Wayne Gritz; a step – sister, Betty McCully, Hennessey; and maternal grandmother, Mary Burner of the home and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her father, Orrill R. Gritz.

The body will lie in state at Cordry and Son Funeral Home in Hennessey from noon Thursday until noon Friday.