Harmon Co. OK Obit for Marianna (Johnson) Gover-Ford
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 
9/29/2002 by Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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SEPT. 10: 

Ford 

Marianna Gover-Ford, 97, died Sunday at her home in Tempe, Arizona. 

Services are pending. 

She was born November 24, 1904 on a claim in Woodward County, Oklahoma Territory 
to pioneer settlers Seth Pomeroy Johnson and Nellie Matthews Johnson. 

Her father was an early day Sheriff and County Assessor of Woodward County. 

She graduated from Woodward High School in 1922 and attended Oklahoma A & M 
College (now Oklahoma State University) where she was a member of Kappa Delta 
Sorority. 

She taught school in Mooreland, Sharon, and Shidler. 

While teaching in Shidler she met and married her first husband Walter B. Gover 
in 1927. 

They moved to Altus in 1931 where they organized and founded The National Bank 
of Commerce. They owned interests in banks in Frederick, Tipton, Hollis, and 
Grandfield. 

Her husband preceded her in death in 1960. 

In 1962, she married Othello H. (Bill) Ford. They established a home in Granite 
where he was President of the First State Bank. They later made their home in 
Grandfield where he was President of the First State Bank. 

Upon their retirement from the Grandfield bank they moved to Green Valley, 
Arizona. 

After her husbands' death in 1982, she moved to the Friendship Retirement 
Village in Tempe, Arizona. 

She was very active in Girl Scouts, Okla. Heritage Association, McDowell Club of 
Allied Arts, the P.E.O. Sisterhood, Daughters of the American Revolution, and 
many other charitable and civic organizations. She was an accomplished pianist, 
loved music and dancing. 

She is survived by son and daughter-in-law John and Maria Gover of Duke; 
daughter and son-in-law Mary Jean and Jack Cahill, St. Louis, Missouri; son-in-
law Gretchen and Jerry Fronterhouse, Kerrville, Texas; nine grandchildren; 
twenty six great-grandchildren; and long-time friend Cyrus Eaton, Tempe, 
Arizona. 

She was preceded in death by a sister Claudene Johnson in 1970. Memorials may be 
made to Okla. P.E.O. Projects Fund; Designate: Continuing Education; c/o Betty 
Miller, 810 Canary Place, Enid, Ok 73703, or to a charity of choice.