Funeral service for Anita Joyce DeMarcus will be 10:00 A.M. Monday, May 23, 2016 at Paradise Valley Baptist Church, north of Lawton with Rev. Lee A. Russell, Trinity Assembly of God, Bessemer City, North Carolina and Pastor Ordean Nelson officiating.

Burial will follow in Paradise Valley Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home of Fletcher.

Visitation hours will be from 9:00 A.M. until 8:00 P.M. Saturday and from 1:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Sunday at the funeral home.

The family will greet friends from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Sunday at the funeral home.

Anita Joyce DeMarcus, age 74, of Lawton passed away Thursday, May 19, 2016 in Lawton.  She was born August 11, 1941 in Tishomingo, Oklahoma to Willie and Oyda (Allen) Settle.  She married John Estel DeMarcus on October 14, 1960 in Fletcher.  He died March 18, 2005.  Mrs. DeMarcus was an Avon Lady for thirty-two years and was also a school cook for Stony Point and Elgin Schools. Anita was a foster parent with SAFY for 10 years.  She was a member of Paradise Valley Baptist Church.

Survivors include three daughters, Johnda Hayes and her husband Steve, Fletcher, Tonya Beratto and her husband Jerry, Mill Creek, Oklahoma and Melissa Holmes and her fiancé Ricky Campbell, Carnegie, six grandchildren, Rachel Bohl, Todd Hayes, Tasha Farley, Garrett Beratto, Shyanne Holmes and Paris Holmes, seven great grandchildren and two sisters, Wilma Russell and her husband Rev. Lee A. Russell, Charlotte, North Carolina and Sharon Beratto and her husband Steve, Mill Creek.

She was preceded in death by her husband, parents and a son-in-law, Jerod Holmes.