She grew to childhood in Eldorado, OK and Altus, OK. After Altus, the family moved to Lawton, OK through her sixth grade. Then they moved to Del City, OK when her dad was promoted in Southwestern Bell. She attended Kerr Middle School and Del City High School, becoming active in FHA, Youth for Christ, and DC Marching Band and Concert Band. Her mother also sent her to charm school, where she was taught how to always be a lady.
While in high school, she met and fell in love with the son of a traveling minister visiting Sunny Lane Methodist Church where her family worshipped. After graduating in 1973, she married Guy William Brothers. That summer her father arranged for her to join him at SWBT as a telephone operator. She started in downtown and later moved to an office on south Walker. She stayed with the company for 31 years, retiring in 2004.
She and Bill had a son, Charles Micheal Brothers, in 1978. In 1982 she filed for divorce. She remained single for the rest of the years Micheal growing up. Her mother and father greatly aided her in raising her sweet young man who became an Eagle Scout. Marcie herself became a leader and a trainer in the Boy Scouts of America.
In 1984 Marcie joined her mother’s philanthropic sorority Epsilon Sigma Alpha International. She made dozens of friends across the state of Oklahoma and around the country while serving in numerous offices, including District Coordinator, Easter Seals Chairperson and Corresponding Secretary for the President during the year her mother held the title of State President. She personally helped start 4 new chapters and has served in several more.
About 2004 or so, Micheal met, fell in love with, and married a young woman from Saginaw, MI. Before he moved north, he helped set his Mom up on Yahoo Personals so she could find someone for herself. She casually dated for a few years without finding someone suitable. Then in January 2007, she received a reply from an older gentleman who was a lab tech. She was impressed with his grammar, erudition, and politeness. She agreed to meet him at the Mandarin Chinese Restaurant in Del City, a favorite of both of them. They talked for 2 hours and it was spooky how alike they were. She agreed to another date two days later for a movie. After the show was over, they kissed in the parking lot. She knew right then that he was the one she had been waiting for. Five weeks later, he proposed on Valentine's night at On The Border, on his knee in the restaurant. When she consented, the whole crowd applauded. Six months later, Marcie Brothers and Jerry Ellington were married in the Governor’s Blue Room at the state capitol.
After honeymooning at Rocky Mountain National Park, they both settled into her little house in Del City. They made multiple trips to Saginaw to visit Micheal, Kelly, and their two children, often accompanied by her parents. In 2015 Bobby Lucas passed away. Marcie and Jerry helped Wanda stay in her home for the next four years while her health declined until she passed in 2019.
While in Pensacola, FL to visit her dying brother in late October, she became very ill from a recurrence of a blood infection she had fought off in August. After three days of antibiotics and supportive therapy and starting organ failure, I told the hospital to withdraw support and let her pass. I arranged for her cremation and to ship her ashes to me back home.
She is survived by her husband Jerry Ellington of Del City, son Charles Micheal Brothers and his two children Lucas Ray Brothers and Addison Ann Brothers, all of Saginaw, MI, sister-in-law Kathy Lucas of OKC, her aunt Barbara Fried of Ft. Worth, TX, nephew Clayton Lucas of OKC, and nephew Chris Lucas of Lawton, OK.
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