Funeral service for Mary Ellen Tally, 78, Lawton, will be 11:00 a.m. Thursday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Mrs. Tally died Monday in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Mrs. Tally was born January 20, 1934 in Pawnee County, Oklahoma, to Ora E. and Geraldine A. (Bruner) Cavett. She grew up in the Blackhorn Community in Kay County and was a graduate of Morrison High School. She married SFC (Retired) Ernest L. Tally on May 29, 1953 in Ponca City, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on April 16, 2002. She was primarily a homemaker but had worked a number of different places including the Post Exchange, Fort Sill National Bank, American National Bank and for twelve years at Security Bank. She had also worked for ASCOG. She earned her BA degree from Cameron University in 2008 and was the oldest graduate that year and had the distinction of being a member of the Honor Society as well as earning a place on the Presidential Honor Roll. She had received numerous awards for her artwork. She is survived by two sons and daughters in law, Lee and Kathy Tally, Duncan, and Jeff and Susan Tally, Lawton; a daughter, Markanne Tally Rouse, Lawton; eight grandchildren, Chera Simpson, Serena Jones, Brandon Rouse, Jason Tally, Christopher Tally, Anthony Hackworth, Stacy Patton and Dana Braun; ten great grandchildren, James, Parker and Payton Simpson, Casey and Collin Jones, T.K. and Autumn Rouse, Taylor and Morgan Braun and Chelsi Patton; a brother Ben Cavett, Ponca City, Oklahoma; numerous nieces and nephews. Her parents and two sisters, Verga and Joyce, preceded her in death.