Age 75, Lawton - Funeral services will be 12:30 p.m. Thursday in the University Drive Church of Christ with Weldon Flanagan and Eric Sharum, officiating. Mr. Shook died Monday in Lawton. Burial with military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. He was born February 24, 1934 in the community of Spring Creek, northeast of Gracemont, Oklahoma, to Joe Herman and Syble Shook. He married Velma J. McCathern in Anadarko, Oklahoma, on June 28, 1952. He served in the U.S. Army from 1957 until 1963, earning the rank of SP4. In addition, he received citations for expert rifleman with an M-1 rifle (1958), and for safety operation of an Army motorized vehicle for 4000 miles or six months (1959). His employment included at or in agriculture, Holsum Bakery, Fairmont Dairy, Farm Fresh Dairy and Lawton High School prior to retiring in 1998. He never attained the prominence of worldly fame or fortune. However, he attained what is most important, a loving and caring heart that was devoted to family, friends, and relatives, and more importantly he is a Christian. He is a member of the University Drive Church of Christ. He is survived by his wife, of the home; three children and their spouses, Terri and Charles Belflower, CaSandra and Eric Sharum, all of Lawton, and Danny Shook, Cache; eight grandchildren, Derek, Nathan and his wife, Michelle, Taryn, Jarrett, Caleb, Joshua, Gina and Christy; six great grandchildren, Kaiden, Mikayla, Brittani, Braden, Jaycee and Jayden; four sisters and brothers in law, Myrtle and Floyd McCathern, Yukon, Oklahoma, Kathleen Brown, Hydro, Oklahoma, Janice Williams, Midwest City, Oklahoma, and Frieda Cox, Midwest City; a brother and sister in law, James and Carolyn Shook, Gracemont, Oklahoma; and many other relatives. His parents and his mother in law and father in law, Fred and Gladys McCathern, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to In Search of the Lords Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond OK 73083 or www.searchtv.org or to the Tipton Children's Home, P.O. Box 370, Tipton OK 73570.