Merlon was preceded in death by her loving husband, Gerald Ray Marrs and Grandsons Claude Darrell Vick and Claude Alexander Vick Jr. She is survived by Daughters, Marian Jeanette Harris of Oklahoma; Barbara Jo Marrs of Garland, TX; Gerry Lou Washburn and husband Larry of Wylie TX and son Sidney Walter Marrs II and his wife Roxanne of Forney TX.; Granddaughter Jamie LeAnn and her husband Isaac Hoskins of Denton, TX and Granddaughter Sheila Sewel and her husband Brad of Lake Palestine TX, Grandson Robert Wesley Vick and his wife Lisa of Garland TX and Tanya Vick (Taylor) Oklahoma.
She was very proud of her Grandchildren Cory Lee Sewell, Cody Tyler Sewell and Ashley Danielle (Sewell) Ayers and Great Grandchildren: Hayden and Emry (Ashley), Jaxson and Brooklyn (Cory) and Brianna and her half-brother (Wesley) and Caleb, Tiffany and Jade plus Caleb’s & Tiffany’s children (Darrell).
Merlon, as a young teenager found work in the food industry at Parkland Hospital and sorted nuts at a nut factory. She married Gerald Ray Marrs on November 18, 1950. Gerald adopted Merlon’s daughter, Marian Jeanette and by 1951 through 1956, they had extended the number of children to four. Merlon, after many years of being a housewife and mother, went to a Technical School and became a Bookkeeper and worked for C&H Transportation Company for 18 years as a Bookkeeper, Data Processing Operator and Supervisor of the Key Punch Department and then Texas Rubber Company until her retirement at 62 years of age.
She and Gerald retired to Cedar Creek Lake until Gerald’s death May 02, 2007. At that time, Merlon moved to Garland, TX where she spent the rest of her life as a beloved Mother, Grandmother and Great Grandmother.
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.laurellanddallas.com for the Marrs family.
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