MARLYN LONG

NEVADA-Graveside services will be held at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday at Lake Cemetery in Lamar for Marilyn P. Long, 86, Nevada, who died Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016, at Mercy Hospital in Fort Scott, Kan., following a short illness.

Arrangements areunder the direction of Ferry Funeral Home, Nevada.

Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday, at the funeral home.

Memorial contributions may be made to Lake Cemetery Association or St. Jude's Hospital, in care of the funeral home.

Survivors include a daughter, Marla Kay Snead and husband Kenny and grandson, Brett Snead, Nevada; her aunts and uncles-in-law, Marlene Davis, Lamar, Frieda Davis, Jasper, Delbert Phipps, Carthage and Loyd Holtzen, Miami, Okla., and many nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Long was born Jan. 22, 1929, west of Irwin in BartonCounty, to Floyd W. and Mina M. (Davis) Greer. She married H. Dayton Long, also of rural Barton County, on August 29, 1948, in Noel. He preceded her in death in February 2010.

She was a 1947 graduate of Lamar High School and briefly taught school in rural Barton County before working in Lamar at Barton County State Bank and then Lamar Bank & Trust Co. She briefly left the banding world to follow her husband to Oceanside, Calif., while he was in the Marines at Camp Pendleton. When he shipped out for Korea she returned to Lamar and returned to banking. They moved to Nevada in 1958 and she continued working at the Trust Company until the early 1970s, when they decided she needed to be in Nevada where their daughter was attending school. She began working for the Nevada R-5 School District as their health secretary, a position she continued until her retirement in 1995. Even then she didnt retire. She continued working as the secretary for Long & Snead Sewer Service until December 2015 and watching grandson, Brett, grow up. She encouraged and supported his love of animals and enjoyed seeing them and hearing about all their exploits.