Valentine, Merton 1937-1989

VALENTINE, SHAW, VISSER

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Date: 4/2/2006 at 12:49:25

Merton Valentine

ENID, Okla. -- Merton Valentine, 52, a resident of Enid, Okla., since 1974 and a former Monroe resident, died Friday, Sept. 29, at the Enid hospital.

Graveside rites will be held at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Silent City Cemetery in Monroe.

The Rev. Jerry Mc Gee, pastor of the United Methodist Church in Monroe, will conduct services.

Friends may call at the Walters-Coburn Funeral Home in Monroe after 9 a.m. Tuesday.

Memorials to the Enid Elks Lodge may be left at the funeral home.

Survivors are two sons, Gregory of Ames and Anthony of Stillwater, Okla.; two daughters, Jody Valentine of Des Moines and Stacey Valentine of Enid, Okla.; a sister, Myra (Mrs. John) Visser of Harvey; and two brothers, Maurice of Wichita Falls, Texas, and Bernard of Newton.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister.

Mr. Valentine, a former employee of the Parsons Co. in Newton and presently employed by George E. Failing Co. of Enid, was a member and former exalted ruler of the Elks Lodge in Enid and had been northwest district vice-president of the Elks.

The son of Mark and Millie Shaw Valentine, he was born Aug. 3, 1937 in Monroe and was graduated from Monroe Community High School.

~ Newton Daily News, Newton, Iowa, October 2, 1989