Funeral service for Billy Paul Burk, 72, Lawton, will be 10:30 a.m. Saturday, March 15, 2014 in the Letitia Baptist Church, east of Lawton, with Vivian Garza officiating. Mr. Burk died Thursday, March 6, 2014, in a Lawton hospital. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. The family will greet friends from 6-8 pm Friday, March 14 at the funeral home. Mr. Burk was born June 21, 1941, in Lawton, Oklahoma, to Welton and Thelma Burk. He grew up in Indiahoma and was a graduate of Indiahoma High School. He later attended Cameron University and Oklahoma State University Institute of Technology. He married Doris Johnson on November 24, 1962 in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was a journeyman plumber and received his certification through the local Plumbers and Pipefitters Union. He was a partner in S.M. Burk Mechanical and in 2003 formed B.P. Burk Mechanical which he operated until the time of his death. He is survived by his wife, of the home; three sons, Jeffrey Burk and wife Denise, Johnny Burk and significant other Crystal, and Jimmy Burk, all of Lawton; his step mother, Joyce Burk, Delano, California; five brothers, Bobby Burk and wife Terry, Broadway, Ohio, Gene Gage and wife Pricilla, Austin, Texas, Ray Burk and wife Missy, Delano, California, Kenneth Burk and wife JonaLee, Nashville, Tennessee, and Allen Burk and wife Marcy, Ozark, Missouri; two sisters, Linda Guerrero, McFarland, California, and Sandra Cothren and husband Bill; 13 grandchildren, Jeremy Burk, Shelby Paul Burk, Diamond Devine, Debra Devine, Alyssa Devine, Tarren Jones, Devin Jones, Joshua Jones, Josie Thiessen, Edward Zacharia Burk, Caleb Smalley, Ethan Smalley and Adam Smalley; 6 Great Grandchildren; brothers in law and sisters in law, Dale and Connie Johnson, Johnnie "Butch" Johnson and Joyce and Dusty Valdez, all of Lawton, Faye Kitchner, Everett, Washington. His parents, his step father, Wallace Gage, maternal grandparents, John and Mollie Beck, and his father in law and mother in law, Johnnie and Dolly Johnson, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to Antioch Baptist Church, 707 2nd Street, Chattanooga OK 73528 or to the Great Plains Technology Center, 4500 SW Lee Blvd, Lawton OK 73505.