Myra Booth

Myra Lee Sanders Booth, age 69 of Whitney, passed away Friday, July 2, after a yearlong battle with cancer. Funeral services will be held Sunday, July 3, at 2 p.m. in the Marshall and Marshall Funeral Chapel in Whitney with Rev. Eddie Booth and Rev. Scotty Marsh officiating. She will be laid to rest at Prairie Valley Cemetery. Myra was born August, 1, 1940 in Dallas, the first of seven children born to Chester Alton Sanders and Ethel Greenwade McMahan. She moved to Whitney at the age of 12. She graduated from Whitney High School in 1958 and married her high school sweetheart Tommy Leon Booth on July 5, 1958. Together they raised two children, and enjoyed spoiling their five grandchildren and many nieces and nephews. She attended Hill College and Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center to earn her Registered Nurses degree in 1970. She worked at Whitney Hospital for 17 years and served as Director of Nurses. After a brief period of semi-retirement she was hired as school nurse for Whitney I. S. D. and cared for the students and staff there for 16 years. She became a member of Prairie Valley Baptist Church when she and Leon married and was baptized in the Brazos River. She was a member of the church choir, played the piano and organ, taught Sunday School, volunteered in the nursery and was a mentor to other teachers and workers. She loved to read, sew, make crafts, play games, work puzzles, quilt and travel. But most of all she enjoyed her life as a wife, mother, grandmother, sister, aunt and friend. She is survived by her husband of almost 52 years Tommy Leon Booth of Whitney, a son Jeffery Leon Booth and wife Amy of Whitney, a daughter Deanna Lanae Eubank and husband Ron of Whitney, five grandchildren T. J. Rogers of Whitney, Hannah Eubank of Lubbock, Shelby Dickie and husband Brad of Whitney, Jeb Eubank of Whitney and Kyle Booth of Whitney, her twin brother Alton Sanders and wife Bonnie of Enfield, Connecticutt, three sisters, Martha Ann Booth and husband David of Flint, Linda Howard and husband Don of Rowlett, and Vicki Satterwhite and her husband Jeff of Laguna Park, brothers, Dean Sanders of Laguna Park and Gene Sanders and his wife Renee of Pasadena, many nieces and nephews, and a host of friends. Memorials in her name may be made to Prairie Valley Cemetery or Prairie Valley Baptist Church.