Wanda Lee (Cole, Myers) Brown, 97, died Jan. 2, 2022.
She was born to Hester and John Cole in Shawnee on Oct. 21, 1924.
She attended and graduated from Shawnee High. She married Billy Jack Myers, Sr. after high school and moved to Texas where their children were born. Earlier in her life she worked at Douglas Field as a “Real Rosie,” riveting the tail section on the C47 aircraft during World War 2.
After the war she became a homemaker raising her children.
In 1961 Wanda met and married Howard Brown.
Wanda attended Church and taught Sunday school from an early age and continued to teach a class while living with her daughter (Janie) in Little Field, TX, also starting a prison ministry while living in Littlefield. She taught there until its closure and taught Sunday school until about 2004.
She retired from Tinker Field AFB in 1996, also at Tinker she led a lunch time Bible study. She had also worked as a waitress, phone operator in an auto supply company and sold Fuller Brushes.
Preceding her in death are her husband, Bill Myers; second husband, Howard Brown; parents; step daughter, Yvonne (Brown) Stout; sister, Willie Farris; brothers-in-law, Vernon Farris and Johnny Nix.
She is survived by sisters, Carolyn Torres, and husband, Vern, Billie Nix, Joy Oldham and husband Raymond; brothers, Howard, and wife, Juanita Cole, and Harold, and wife, Virginia Cole; children, Janie (Myers) Walls and husband Stan of Lubbock, TX, Billy Jack Jr. (Jack) Myers of Kellyville, OK, and James (Jim) Myers of Shawnee, OK, Kenneth Brown, and his wife, Rachel; Howard’s two sons, Delloyd Brown, his wife Vernette of Shawnee, OK, and Danny Brown of Shawnee; nine grandchildren; 25 great-grandchildren; many nieces and nephews.
Service was Jan. 6, 2022, at Cooper Funeral Home Chapel with Jeremy Brown officiating. Burial followed at Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Cooper Funeral Home of Tecumseh. The celebration of Wanda’s life was live-streamed through Cooper Funeral Home’s Facebook page.
