Funeral service for Myrtle Marlar-Baker, 87, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, October 1, 2012 in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Dean Thompson officiating. Myrtle (Granny) went to be with the Lord on Saturday, September 22, 2012 in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. She was born May 12, 1925 in Ponza, Kentucky. She grew up in Kentucky and married MSG (Retired) Dave Marlar on October 2, 1943 in Pineville, Kentucky. He preceded her in death on November 11, 1989. They traveled in the Army until he retired in Lawton in 1962. Myrtle was a proud homemaker, wife and mother. She loved to plant flowers and always grew a garden with which she canned and made many wonderful meals to share. She was a Sunday School Teacher for the youth and then the adults and also sang in the church choir where she was a member at the Westside Church of God in Lawton for over 20 years. She married Bert Baker on June 1, 1996 and had been a member of the Brockland Free Will Baptist Church for almost 20 years. She is survived by her husband, Lawton; a granddaughter, Keri Lea Harrell, Lawton; two great grandchildren, Sabrina Ann Harrell, Lawton, and AE4 Joshua Dave Harrell and wife Melinda, Lexington Park, Maryland; a brother and sister in law, Earl and Fay Jones, Pineville, Kentucky; a step daughter, Gloria Ziegler and husband Mark, Lawton; a step son, Bill Baker and wife Nelda, Sallisaw, Oklahoma; two step grandchildren, Jennifer and Brian Honeyager, Lawton, and Brendan and Ashleigh Baker, Sallisaw; two step great grandchildren, Cade Baker and Ahana Baker. Her parents, a daughter, Patricia Ann Bowen, brothers, Hopper Tom Thompson and Herbert Thompson, and a sister, Ethel Lamar, preceded her in death. The family will greet friends from 2-4 pm Sunday at the funeral home.