Funeral service for Arlin Monroe Perkins will be 1:30 p.m. Saturday, January 9, 2016, in Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Don Barnes, Pastor, Lawton First Assembly officiating.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

Arlin Monroe Perkins, age 89, died Wednesday, January 6, 2016 in Lawton. He was born August 24, 1926 near Loco, Oklahoma, to John Monroe and M. Ular (Ross) Perkins. He moved to Comanche in 1929, to Marlow in 1934, to Roswell, New Mexico in 1945 and to Lawton in 1947. He had worked as a truck driver hauling sand and gravel from 1953 until 1968. He then went to work for Jefferson Bus Lines as a driver and remained there until his retirement in 1991. He continued to drive the busses part time until the age of 70.

Arlin was a member of Lawton First Assembly. He enjoyed fishing and was very musically gifted.

He is survived by a sister and brother in law, Corrine Stout Duncan and Leland, Lawton; numerous nieces and nephews; and special friends, Fray Palmer and Jerry Castlebury.

His parents, two brothers, Rinzy Dow Perkins and Leeroy Perkins and four sisters, Odessa Sibley, Ethel Gibson, Juanita Perkins and Mary Bell Perkins, preceded him in death.