January 26, 1939
Lonnie was born to Clayton Dewayne Myers and Carol Engleking Myers on January 26, 1939, in Bartlesville. He attended Bartlesville public schools and graduated in 1957. He attended two years at Kansas State University in Manhattan, where he met Linda Kay Funk. He nicknamed her “Brown Eyes,” and they were married September 3, 1960.
Lonnie and Linda moved back to Bartlesville, where he began his career in drafting. Shortly after that, Lonnie was drafted into the United States Army and was stationed at Ft. Carson, Colorado, where he served in an artillery unit.
After serving in the military, he returned to Phillips to continue drafting, and in 1966, they moved to Okmulgee, where he was a drafting instructor at Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology for the next twenty- five years. He retired in 1990.
Lonnie accepted the Lord Jesus at the age of 64 and was ordained as a deacon in his church on November 9, 2014. In his free time, he enjoyed fishing, jewelry making, and rock hunting.
He is preceded in death by his parents, Clayton Dewayne Myers, and Carol Elizabeth Engleking and brother Gary Dee Myers. Lonnie is survived by his wife, Linda, his two sons, David Wayne Myers and his wife Lisa of the home, and Keith Randall Myers and his wife Stacey of New Palestine, Indiana. Lonnie has three grandchildren, Alex Myers and his wife Paisley of Princeton, Texas, Caitlin and her husband Aaron Steuart of Claremore, and Kiefer Myers and his wife Shayna of Shelbyville, Indiana, and one great-grandson, Kassian Myers of Shelbyville, Indiana. He is also survived by two nieces, Vicki and her husband Jason Rodd of Carrollton Texas, and Carrie and her husband Billy Powell of Lubbock, Texas.
In lieu of flowers, donations can be given to the American Cancer Society or in a love offering to Second Baptist Church of Okmulgee.
A Celebration of Life service will be held Saturday April, 13, 2024, at 10:30 a.m. at Second Baptist Church in Okmulgee.
