Graveside service for B. J. Messick will be at 11:00 am Monday, November 6, 2017 in the IOOF Cemetery, Indiahoma with Daryl Perry, Indiahoma officiating.

Service with military honors will be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Billie Joe Messick, 90, Indiahoma passed away Friday, November 3, 2017 in the Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center.  He was born June 19, 1927 in Mountain Park, OK to R. C. and Reba Messick.  He was a veteran of WW II and Korea, and was honorably discharged in 1952 from the US Army.  He married Jo Ann Bland                 on June 6, 1955 in Vernon, TX.  He owned Christopher Home Furnishings in Lawton and retired from the business in 1985.  They lived in Indiahoma until August of 2017, when B. J. went to live at the Lawton/Fort Sill Veterans Center until his passing.  He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans and the Cache Masonic Lodge.

Survivors include his wife Jo Ann, daughter Teresa Jackson and husband Dennis, grandson Cory Jackson, great grandson Drew Jackson, brother-in-law Jerry Bland, sister-in-law Joy Messick and numerous nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his parents, 2 brothers, Tommy and Jake Messick, sister-in-law Lorene Messick, sister Reba Lou Emmons, brother-in-law Leon Emmons, and mother-in-law and father-in-law, Martha and Virgil Bland.