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   OA Online Obituaries. 
   
January 08, 1999

Permian Basin Obituaries

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   Marilue Adair Steakley
   
   SHERMAN -- Marilue Adair Steakley, a 19-year resident of Sherman, died
   January  4,  1999.  She  lived  in  Odessa from 1956 to 1979 and was a
   member of Belmont Baptist Church.
   
   A  memorial  service  will  be held at Sherman Bible Church on Monday,
   January  11,  1999, at 5 p.m. Officiating will be George Cline, pastor
   of  Grace Bible Church. Her children are honoring her request that her
   body be donated to medical science.
   
   Marilue  Steakley was born November 13, 1917, in Josephine, Texas, the
   daughter  of Dr. James Harris Hicks and Myrtle Adele (Buck) Hicks. She
   graduated  from  Denton  High  School  in  1933 and from Texas Women's
   University  in  1937  and 1940 with B.A. and M.A. degrees. She married
   W.C.  "Will"  Adair,  Jr. in 1938 and Robert Everett "Bob" Steakley in
   1972, both of whom preceded her in death.
   
   In  1972,  she  retired from 20 years of teaching. During her teaching
   career,  she  inaugurated  a  Visiting  Teacher  program in the Odessa
   Public  School  system,  which dealt with children who were either not
   enrolled  in  school  or who were having problems while in school. She
   taught on both middle school and high school levels, and the last four
   years  of her career she was an instructor at Odessa College. She held
   membership in Delta Kappa Gamma and Texas State Teachers Association.
   
   After  the death of her husband in 1978, she moved to Sherman in 1979.
   In the 1980s she was a Hospice volunteer for a number of years, and at
   the  time  of  her  death she was in her nineteenth year as a hospital
   auxiliary  volunteer  at  Wilson N. Jones Memorial Hospital. Last year
   she  completed  training  as an Ombudsman for nursing homes. She was a
   charter  member  of  Grace  Bible  Church, an independent church which
   upholds the doctrines of the Baptist Confession of 1689 and those held
   by the men who led the Protestant Reformation.
   
   Surviving  are  a  daughter:  Barbara  Adair, of Richardson, sons: Don
   Adair  and  his  wife, Judy, of Richardson and Ron Adair and his wife,
   Beth,  of  Colorado Springs, Colorado; grandchildren: Ryan Adair, Mark
   Adair,  David  Adair,  Amy Harber, Ben, Sarah and Catherine Martin and
   Annie  Waters;  a great-grandson: Ian Harber; a step-son: Bob Steakley
   of  Odessa; step-daughters: Dora Lee White of Rocksprings, TX and Nora
   May  Verner of Odessa; six step-grandchildren; brothers-in-law: Marvin
   Steakley of Dallas and Bob Adair of Lubbock; sisters-in-law: Iola Lamb
   of  Knoxville,  Tenn.  and  Sis  Finley of Falls Church, Virginia; and
   three nephews: Jimmy and Bobby Ray of Plano and Harry Ray of Rockport,
   TX.
   
   In lieu of flowers, memorials may be given to Grace Bible Church, P.O.
   Box  2251,  Sherman,  TX  75091 or to Wilson N. Jones Auxiliary, ATTN:
   Marilyn Rollins, 500 N. Highland, Sherman, TX 75092.
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