Funeral service for Carrol Ray Heller will be 2:00 P.M. Wednesday, April 11, 2018 in First Baptist East with Rev. Doug Passmore, pastor officiating.

Burial will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends from 6:00 P.M. until 8:00 P.M. Tuesday at the funeral home.

Carroll Ray Heller, age 84, of Lawton, passed away Saturday, April 7, 2018 in Lawton.  He was born in a farm house three miles North Northeast of Cashion, Oklahoma on December 28, 1933 to Jess and Alma Heller.  He grew up on the farm and helped his parents in their farming operations. He also hunted for small game, fished and trapped fur bearing animals while living on the farm.

He attended Cashion Public Schools and graduated in 1953.  After high school, he attended Central State College (now University of Central Oklahoma) and Oklahoma State University where he received a Bachelors of Science Degree in Mechanical Engineering.  During summers, he worked in the oil fields, one summer as a roustabout and two summers on drilling rigs.

He served two years in the U.S. Army and was stationed at White Sands Missile Range.  After completing his military service, he worked as a civilian missile test engineer.  He went back to college at New Mexico State University and received another degree in Civil Engineering.  He worked for the Texas Highway Department (now Texas Department of Highways and Public Transportation) from June 1965 through October 1975.  He began working at Fort Sill in the Engineering Division of the Directorate of Public Works from November 1975 until he retired on May 3, 2004 as a design engineer.  He was also a referee for his son's Carriage Hills LEOSA Soccer Team for several years.

He married Mary Francis Pruitt on September 6, 1964.  She died March 17, 1994.  He married Esther Hodges on June 13, 2001.

He was a member of First Baptist East.  He also belonged to the Oklahoma Square Dance Federation and Solo Squares of Lawton.

Survivors include his wife, of the home, son, Jesse R. Heller, daughter, Lisa C. Gulley and her husband Kevin, three step sons, Michael Hodges and his wife, Monique, Charles Hodges and his wife, Debra and John Hodges and his significant other, Lacy Palmer, two step daughters, Marcella Carstensen Williams and Stella Arterberry Conway and her husband Jim Conway, numerous grand and great grandchildren, sister, Motie Ann Kuykendall,  two sisters-in-law, Nita Heller and Kay Heller, brother-in-law, Vernard Valdez and his wife, Barbara and nephew, Brian Valdez and his wife, Lauren.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Jean Marie Heller and four brothers, William, John, Jesse and Harold Heller.

The family would like to thank Dr. Brent Smith and all of the employees of Faith Hospice for taking such good care of our loved one.