Graveside services for Marvin Agan, 79, longtime Custer County farmer will be held 11:00 am, Monday, April 3, 2023, in the Mount Hope Cemetery, south of Custer City, OK. Services will be officiated by family, Abbagail and Carter Nance, and Randy Meacham.
Marvin Leon Agan was born December 8, 1943, to Joy and Frances (Matthews) Agan in Clinton, OK and passed away Friday, March 24, 2023, in his Oklahoma City home.
Marvin attended Custer City Schools, where he was very active in Future Farmers of America (FFA), receiving numerus awards including the State Farmer Award. Marvin graduated from Custer City Highschool in 1962. Following graduation he attended college at Oklahoma State University in Stillwater, OK for one semester, at that time he started farming full time with his dad. He did attend one more year of college at Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, OK. After farming for the next eight years, Marvin married the love of his life Linda Johnson April 25, 1973, at the First Methodist Church in Custer City, OK.
Marvin and Linda farmed side by side while raising son’s Ryan and Derek on the family farm. Marvin was on the Custer City Farmers Jr. Coop Board; he was a Regional Representative for Dow Chemical Company in Custer County. Marvin was also named the Most Outstanding Wheat Producer from the Oklahoma Sate University. He worked as a Custom Applicator for Clinton Coop spreading fertilizer through the winter months. He was a Bounty Seed Wheat Dealer and ACCO Feed Dealer for several years. In 1999, Marvin started a Custom Applicator Business with his two sons, Ryan and Derek. He ran that business until 2018 before retiring back to being a full-time farmer.
He is preceded in death by his parents and youngest son, Derek.
He is survived by his wife of 50 years, Linda, son, Ryan Agan and wife, Lyn, daughter in law, Michelle Agan-Olander, grandchildren, Rylyn Agan and Fiancé, Dylon Fox, Abbagail Nance and husband, Carter, Callen Agan and wife, Autumn, Oakley Agan and step grandson, Kole Wherritt and wife, Taylor.
He is also survived by two sisters, Joyce Hargrove and husband, Elson, Gayle Dekker, niece and nephew and numerous cousins.
The family has requested in lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation, 825 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73103 (www.omrf.org)