Myrtle Marguerite (Hoover) Dunbar

Funeral services for Myrtle “Myrt” Marguerite (Hoover) Dunbar of Saint Jo will be held at 2:00 PM on Saturday, February 1, 2025, at Friendship Church in Saint Jo. Burial to follow at Illinois Bend Cemetery. Visitation will be from 6:00-7:00 PM on Friday, January 31, 2025, at Scott Funeral Home in Saint Jo. Myrtle went to be with her Savior in Heaven on Saturday, January 25, 2025. She was born November 10, 1928, in Illinois Bend, Texas to Beatrice (Griffin) and Daniel Hoover. After graduating as valedictorian from Saint Jo High School in 1947, she attended Bethany Nazarene College in Bethany, Oklahoma, on a scholarship. Later, she began working for SW Bell Telephone Company and remained there until 1956. In 1949, She met the love of her life, JC, and they married on May 14, 1949. They lived in Oklahoma City until 1962 when they moved to Mustang, OK. After serving 26 years in Federal Government positions – Civil Service, FAA, IRS, and HUD, she retired in 1989. In 1984, they moved to Hoover family land in Illinois Bend, to farm and ranch and have lived there since. For entertainment in the early 1960’s, she and JC began square dancing and became secretary of the Central District Square Dance Association. Myrt’s main hobby was working in the Country Music Field. She organized and managed International Fan Clubs for David Sugg of Oklahoma City and for the Hank Williams Original Drifting Cowboys Band of Nashville, Tennessee, and she held many offices in the Oklahoma Country Music Association. She loved going to Fan Fair in Nashville every year and met many country music stars. She also loved to have everyone come at Christmas and always had tons of gifts for all the grandchildren to open. She loved having all her grandchildren visit!! She also made large batches of her candies every holiday and took them around to all the businesses in town. She was preceded in death by her husband, JC Dunbar, parents: Beatrice and Daniel Hoover, siblings, Herbert Hoover, Daniel Hoover, Estelle Johnston, Ida Wright, Evelyn Madron, Hernon(Shad) Hoover, Elmore Hoover, Virginia Marie Hoover, and Buster Hoover, and half siblings, Katie Snapp, Phillip Hoover, Frank Hoover, Maudie Phillips, Lillie Sewell, Fred Hoover, and Abel Hoover. She is survived by one brother, Johnny Hoover of Oklahoma City; her children: Sherrie Jo Orr, Randy Lynn Dunbar, Paula Sue and husband Tom Hertzler; grandchildren: Bobby and Anne Key, Joey and Krista Key, Aleta and Adam McBride, Stephanie Franks, Tiffany and Jake Cox, Laura and Charlie Howery, Clint and Whitney Dunbar, Cody and Penny Dunbar; great grandchildren: Jennifer Ferguson, Jaclyn Smith, Elliott and Krisalyn Key, Bennett, Boston, and Bowen McBride, Joseph Cox, Samuel and Charlotte Howery, Lillie, Faith, Cannon Dunbar, and Avery Emens, Scotlyn and C.J. Dunbar; great-great grandchildren: Brynn, Heidi, and Grady Ferguson, Emmy Lou and Tripp Smith; plus numerous nieces and nephews.

Myrtle Marguerite (Hoover) Dunbar

November 10, 1928 - January 25, 2025