Funeral service for Marlene Virginia Cagle will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 13, 2024 in First Baptist Church with Rev. Tom Willoughby officiating.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends from 6-8 pm Tuesday, November 12, 2024 at the funeral home.

Marlene Virginia Cagle journeyed home with Christ on October 30, 2024.  She was born Marlene Virginia Hortman to Marvin and Helen Hortman on September 20, 1934 in Amarillo, Texas.  They moved to Lawton, Oklahoma in 1944 where she graduated from Lawton High School in 1952.  She married Doye Earl Cagle on March 6, 1953.  They made a home in Lawton where Marlene was employed by American National Bank from 1950-1957.  Doye's contracts with the military would then take them to bases at Fort Chaffee, near Fort Smith, Arkansas and Fort Polk, near De Ridder, Louisiana, before settling back in Lawton in 1968 due to Doye's contract with the post at Fort Sill.  Marlene served as financial secretary and office manager at MacArthur High School from 1972-1985 and was later employed by Cameron University's Technology Department from 1988 until her retirement in June 1995.

Marlene was a member of the First Baptist Church in Lawton for 50 years and the Four-Square Sunday School class where she also served as secretary and group leader for three years.  She was a member of the First Baptist Church choir for over 20 years.  She recently had become a member of Trinity Assembly of God.  Throughout her life, Marlene was a loving and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, great grandmother and friend to many.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Doye Earl Cagle, her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marvin Hortman, and her granddaughter, Rachel Brianne Ryden.

She is survived by her three children: Debbie Harden and her husband, Jim of Lawton, Oklahoma; Kurt Cagle and his wife Tera of Norman, Oklahoma; and Tammy Secor and her husband Grant of Edmond, Oklahoma.  She is also survived by five grandchildren:  Rimmie Hunter and husband Todd of Lawton, Oklahoma; Houston Cagle and his wife Angie of Denver, Colorado; Cody Cagle of Farmers Branch, Texas; Chelsea Danberry and her husband Matt of Sand Springs, Oklahoma; and Kalen Ryden and his wife Jade of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and great-grandchildren:  Ella, Ethan and Eden Danberry, Kendall Brianne Ryden and soon to be born, Max Hunter.

"Absent from the body, present with the Lord"  (2 Corinthians 5:8)

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the music ministry at First Baptist Church, Lawton, Oklahoma.