Funeral services for Myrel Dumas, 87, of Purcell were held Tuesday, Jan. 6, 2009 at Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church with the Rev. Michael Vaught officiating. Interment was at Hillside Cemetery in Purcell under the direction of Wilson-Little Funeral Home in Purcell. Mrs. Dumas died Friday Jan. 2, 2009 at her home. She was born March 10, 1921 in Norman, the oldest of seven children born to Thomas Robert Pierce Davis and Selma May Waggoner. Myrel grew up in the Goins Community west of Purcell and attended school there until the eighth grade. Her family then moved to Oklahoma City where she graduated from Central High School. After high school, she attended one year at Blackwood Davis Business College.

On Nov. 4, 1940, Myrel married Henry John Dumas in Purcell. Myrel worked tirelessly as a homemaker and mother raising eight children. She and Henry later owned and operated the “Henry’s Liquor Store” on Main Street in Purcell for nearly 15 years. She was a faithful member of Our Lady of Victory Catholic Church in Purcell. She will be remembered for her faith in God and her love for her family.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Tom and Selma Davis; her husband, Henry; three children, an infant son, John Francis Dumas, Tommy Dumas and Mary Jane Popoff; two sisters, Burris Jean Motz and an infant sister; four brothers, Dwayne, Wayne, Jack and Bobby Lee Davis; sons-in-law, Jerry Mantooth and John Winn and daughters-in-law, Deveny Dumas and Sally Dumas.

Survivors include four daughters, Carolyn Winn of Gilroy, Calif., Jeanne Mantooth of Purcell, Margaret Luttrell and husband, Tod, of Norman and Pamela Yen and husband, Ervin, of Oklahoma City; two sons, Johnny Dumas and wife, Cathy, of Belmont, Calif., and Henry Dumas and wife, Patty, of Purcell; 31 grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and many nieces, nephews, other relatives and all her
friends who ever met her.

Pallbearers were Jacob Dumas, Aaron Dumas, Gregg Wilkes, Cameron Yen, Zach Luttrell and Jeff Dumas.

The family would like to thank Our Lady of Victory Church and Loving Care Hospice for the love and compassion shown to our family.