Frances "Sug" Lorraine Myrick Hutcheson

Frances “Sug” Lorraine Hutcheson was born June 18,1929 to Francis “Frank” and Vera “Curly” Combs Myrick and passed from this life on March 26, 2025. She is survived by daughter Verna Lea Shroads and husband Glenn, son Lyle Hutcheson and wife Malynda, brother Billy Myrick and many cousins, nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by husband, Vernald, parents, Frank and Vera, and sister, Leona Mae Burchfiel. Graveside services will be held 10:00 A.M. Monday, March 31, 2025, at New Home Cemetery, Nash, OK. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the New Home Cemetery, Nash, OK.

Life of Frances “Sug” Myrick Hutcheson

Frances was born on a farm near Jet. She was barely out of diapers when a family friend gave her the nickname “Sug”, and as years passed, most people forgot her given name.

Sug attended 1st thru 8th grades at the Eagle Grove Rural School. It was a one- room schoolhouse a mile from her home and she walked to and from most days, no matter the weather. High school was at the Gore Consolidated School where she graduated in 1947.

The summer of that year, Sug moved to Jet to live with her grandmother so she could waitress in a cafe. While working there, she met a young man home from his stint in the Army and on January 4, 1948, Vernald and Frances were married. They started their life together on a farm north of Nash in a 3-room house. It had a woodburning stove and an outhouse, but no electricity or running water. While there, two children were born, Verna Lea and Lyle Ray. When the kids were 1 and 3, the family moved to Hitchland, Texas for 18 months, but they were so homesick they moved back to the 3-room house and never lived outside Oklahoma again.

Sometime in 1960, they moved into Nash and Sug started waitressing again. She loved meeting people and talking with them, but she only made $1.50 per hour plus tips, so she got a second job with the telephone company as a switchboard operator. The Nash Public School had a part-time opening for a female custodian, so she hired on in 1962 and worked at the school during the day and the switchboard in the evenings. She quit the phone company in 1964 and started full-time as a cook at the school where she retired after 25 years.

A favorite pastime was working jigsaw puzzles and after her kids were grown and gone, you could visit and most days there was a puzzle in progress on her card table. In any conversation with Sug, she would work in something about her pecan trees, her nut crop, or those pesky squirrels!

In her early years she joined many organizations including the Nash VFW Ladies Auxiliary, Homemakers Study Club and the ONO Club. Later she was a proud member of the Nash Senior Citizens and was involved in almost everything they did. From potluck dinners to a fun night of pitch or dominoes to playing in the kitchen band. Although she outlived Vernald by more than 31 years, she continued to be actively involved in her community and was a member of the First Baptist Church of Nash.

Sug saw a lot of changes in 95 years, from helping her dad farm with a team of horses to seeing men walking on the moon to computers in almost every home to electric cars on the roads.

In the last few years with decreased mobility and failing eyesight, her contact with people became riding down to get the mail, coffee on Saturdays and going to doctors' appointments.

Sug’s life was but a moment in time in God's plan and she did the best she could.