Marilyn Kay Waters

Memorial services for Marilyn Kay Waters, 80 year-old Weatherford resident, will be held Monday, February, 27, 2023, at 2:00 P.M. in the Pleasant View Mennonite Church, North of Hydro, with Jeff Selzer officiating. Services are under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home.

Marilyn was born September 21, 1942, in Seattle, Washington to Virgil and Sarah (Blevins) Sims and passed away Saturday, February 18, 2023, at Weatherford, Oklahoma. Marilyn’s family consisted of 3 children; Donald, Marilyn and Kenneth. Her father, Virgil Sims was killed in 1945 during WWII. Sarah would later return to Oklahoma with her children to be near family. In 1948, brother, Donald was killed in a cellar explosion with 3 other young children on the farm.

In 1949, Sarah married Riley Loy and they moved to Hitchcock, Oklahoma. Marilyn attended one year of school there. Then they moved to Watonga where she attended Bridgeford Country School until 6th grade and graduated Watonga High School in 1960.

She attended a year at SWOSU in Weatherford, Oklahoma. She met her first husband, Jerry Hamburger on a blind date, while a senior in high school. When she moved to Weatherford to attend college. He hired her to work at his go-cart-track and they were married December 31, 1960 in Weatherford, Oklahoma at the home of Rev. Jack Roth Pastor, of the Zion Congregational Church.

Jerry and Marilyn were both saved on February 10, 1974 at a Larry Jones Crusade at the Weatherford High School. Marilyn stated “I was and still am overwhelmed that God loves me as I am. Jesus completely changed my life and lifestyle in 1974 and I’ve never looked back.” Jerry was hurt in a farming accident on July 13, 1987 and died in a Clinton nursing center on February 12, 1989. Marilyn had a lifelong love for music. She started piano lessons during 2nd grade and in 1979 became church organist at Zion Church and played 45 years, retiring in 2015.

Marilyn met Richard Waters in the fall of 1989 and were married on October 20, 1990, at the Zion Church in Weatherford. Their families shared holidays; birthdays; and get togethers for many years. Richard preceded Marilyn in death on September 16, 2022. He was her best friend and loving husband for 32 years. They spent the majority of their marriage traveling, visiting friends and family and taking in God’s beautiful creations. Richard enjoyed “farming out the car windows” as they would drive down the highway.

Marilyn is survived by grandson, Jacobey Post of Weatherford; daughter, Shelley Post of Weatherford; son, Kurt Hamburger and wife, Joann of Weatherford; brother, Kenneth Sims and wife, Joyce of Oklahoma City; nephew, Darren Sims and wife, Joy and family of Oklahoma City; two nieces, Sarita Smith and husband, Robert of McAlester and Linda Drake and husband, Dale of Naples, Florida; also Richard Waters children: son, Rod Waters and wife, Chris; two daughters, Gerri Hutchison and Dixie Yoder and husband, Galen; grandchildren, Kevin Yoder and wife, Tasha, Ashley Hutchison and wife, Melissa, Jason Yoder and wife, Tracy, Regina Gray and husband, Bryan, Brandon Waters and wife, Kelly, and Nick Waters and wife, Eladah; many great-grandchildren who became her own family; and many friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Virgil and Sarah Sims; husbands, Jerry Hamburger and Richard Waters; brother, Donald Sims and son-in-law, Phil Post.

Memorials can be made to your favorite charity.

(Paid Obituary)