Dr. Marvin Dale Peyton, beloved husband, father, grandfather, brother, uncle, and distinguished thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon, passed away peacefully on August 7, 2021, at his home in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Marvin was born on January 12, 1946, in Cushing Oklahoma to Sim Hondoras Peyton and Ruby Geneva (Laughlin) Peyton. He graduated from Cushing High School, received his undergraduate degree from Oklahoma State University and his medical degree from University of Oklahoma School of Medicine.
Dr. Peyton provided care to the Oklahoma City community as a thoracic and cardiovascular surgeon for thirty years. In 2002 he returned to academic medicine as the Chairman of the Section of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery and Professor of surgery. In 2015 he was named Professor Emeritus of Surgery by the Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Peyton will be remembered fondly for his calm and caring ways, his humility, his dry sense of humor, and his kindness. He was an avid reader, an active skier and runner, a hunter, a fisherman, and so-so golf player. He enjoyed spending time with friends and family, lake time, and enthusiastically embraced the cowboy life with his horses. He was proud of his Oklahoma heritage. We will miss his brilliance, stubbornness, frugality, ability to fall asleep anywhere, passion for old-fashioned values, his numerous hand-written notes to friends and family, and genuine curiosity and love for learning.
He is survived by Sandra, his loving wife of fifty-five years, his children Marvin Lane Peyton, M.D., Tyler Fox Peyton, and Laura Jane Peyton, his grandchildren Carter Fox Peyton and Clara Lane Peyton, his sister Leta Faye (Peyton) McLemore, his sister-in-law Susan Fox Creekmore and her husband Joe, his nephew Brent McLemore, and nieces Sharon Probasco Peery, Chrystal Probasco, Carole McLemore, Sheila (McLemore) McCarty and husband Mike, Taylor Jacobs and husband Marc, and many great nieces and nephews. He is preceded in death by his parents and sisters Juanita (Peyton) Probasco, and Treva Mae Peyton.
May he rest with quiet dignity.
Services will be held at St. Luke's United Methodist Church on Saturday, August 14 at 1:00 p.m.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine, 800 Stanton L. Young Boulevard, Oklahoma City, OK 73117.
