MYRTLE SKAGGS

LAMAR- The family will receive friends from 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday, at Daniel Funeral Home, for Myrtle Skaggs, 92, Lamar, who died Sunday morning, Jan. 14, 2018 at Truman Healthcare Center. A committal service will follow at Maple Grove Cemetery, near Sylvania.

Condolences and memories may be shared at www.danielfuneralhome.net.

Survivors include her husband of nearly 70 years, Denzil, of the home; a daughter, Bev Yokley and husband Dan, Neosho; two sisters, Clara McMillen, Augusta, Kan. and Zella Mae Needham, Greenfield; two granddaughters, Robin Turner and husband John, Lamar and Crystal Franklin and husband Jamie, Neosho and four great-grandchildren, Gage Turner, Kassidy Inman and husband Dylan, Brady Franklin and Brock Franklin.

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Johnny, Charlie and Russell Oyster.

Mrs. Skaggs was born Jan. 18, 1925, in Stillwater, Okla., to Tom and Haley (Broaderick) Oyster. Moving with her family to Dade County, Mo. in 1940, she graduated from Lockwood High School in 1944 and worked on the family farm. On October 12, 1948, at Nevada, Mo., she married Denzil Skaggs and they made their home and farmed neared Sylvania before moving to Barton County in 1957.

In addition to being a devoted homemaker, wife, mother and grandmother, she had worked as a nurse aide, admitting and caring for the very first residents of the newly opened Chastain’s Nursing Home. She was a natural and loving caregiver, who shared her heart as “Granny” to many of her granddaughters’ friends. Her family and friends reaped the blessing of her cooking skills and made wonderful memories around a table filled with fried chicken, mashed potatoes, cherry pie, or her incredible cinnamon rolls. Many of those great meals came from her bountiful garden, either fresh, frozen or canned in her kitchen.

She kept her mind sharp with word-find puzzles. She was an avid Kansas City Chiefs fan and never missed a radio broadcast of a Lamar Tiger football game.