Grover "Gene" Myers, son of the late Grover Ecord Myers and Mary Ellen Snider Myers was born on January 29, 1935 in Vinson, Missouri and passed away on August 15, 2013 at the Poplar Bluff Regional Medical Center in Poplar Bluff, Missouri at the age of 78.
Mr. Myers volunteered from 1956-1958 in Vietnam with the International Volunteer Service, he was an Educator and Principal in the Dexter Senior High School, a member of the Dexter Rotary and Optimist clubs, the Director of Admissions at McPherson College, a Principal at Poplar Bluff High School, Director of Special Services for Poplar Bluff High School and was a member and Sunday school teacher at the Broadwater Church of the Brethren. He was a former resident of Dexter currently living in Wappapello.
On December 22, 1963 he was united in marriage to Lurlyne Hardy in Dexter. Mrs. Myers survives of their residence in Wappapello.
Besides his wife he is survived by two sons, John Thomas Myers of Marion, Arkansas and James Riley Myers of Poplar Bluff, Missouri; by one daughter and son-in-law, Libby and husband Jeff Gall of West Plains, Missouri and by five grandchildren, Mary Katherine Myers, Ian Thomas Myers, Dylan Ray Myers, Lane Eugene Gall and Luke Eli Gall.
Besides his parents he was preceded in death by one brother, John Albert Myers.
A memorial service will be conducted on Monday, August 19, 2013 at 6:00 P.M. in the Rainey-Mathis Funeral Chapel in Dexter with Brother Harold Gass and Marie Petty Froman officiating. In lieu of flowers the family asks that memorials be made to the Broadwater Church of the Brethren and the McPherson College , envelopes will be provided at the funeral home.