Memorial service for Dr. Charles Shelly Graybill will be 11:00 a.m. Saturday, January 2, 2016, in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with The Rev. Shelley Forrester, Rector, officiating.

Inurnment will follow in the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church Columbarium under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Dr. Charles Shelly Graybill, age 96, died Monday, December 28, 2015, in Lawton. He was born June 10, 1919 at home in Lawton, Oklahoma to Charles Shelly Graybill, Sr. and Frances Burson Sleeper Graybill. He lived and worked his entire lifetime in Lawton with the exception of college, medical school, orthopedic residency and his service in the U.S. Army as a surgeon during WWII. He married Elizabeth Ann Bevan on February 8, 1946 at Fort Sill. She preceded him in death on August 19, 2015.

Dr. Graybill graduated from Lawton High School 1937 as salutatorian and earned the Chemistry Award; attended Cameron Junior College and the University of Oklahoma from 1937-39; obtained his Doctor of Medicine from the University of Oklahoma School of Medicine in June 1943; and performed his Orthopedic Surgery residency at Oklahoma University Hospitals from November 1946-April 1949.

Dr. Graybill's professional activities and leadership accomplishments are as follows:  US Army Captain, Medical Corps Battalion surgeon from 1944-46; Orthopedic surgery private practice Lawton, May 1949- Sept 1980; non-surgical orthopedic clinical practice with the Civil Service Commission, Reynolds Army Hospital, Fort Sill, Sept 1980-Sept 1985; part-time non-surgical orthopedic and arthritis private practice Lawton, 1980-1991; Orthopedic consultant with the Kiowa Indian Hospital north of Lawton, early 1950s; Orthopedic consultant Reynolds Army Hospital, Fort Sill, 1950-1979; past chief of medical staff Southwestern Hospital; past chief of medical staff Comanche County Memorial Hospital; past president of Comanche County Medical Society; past president of Oklahoma Orthopedic Society; charter member International Orthopedic Letters Club; Faculty and Visiting Orthopedic Lecturer, University of Oklahoma Medical School; member of invited Orthopedic Ambassador delegation to China with "People to People" organization, in 1986, giving medical lectures to Chinese medical personnel and to physicians of the Chinese Medical Association.  His lecture, "Hip Diseases in Children", was published in the January 1989 Chinese Journal of Orthopedics.  He was also a member of the invited Orthopedic Ambassador delegation to Russia with "People to People" organization, 1990.

He was honored as an Eagle Scout in 1936; was the Distinguished Alumni Award recipient from Cameron University 1983; the Comanche County Memorial Hospital Medical Library Information System was dedicated in his honor in June 1994; named Citizen of the Arts in 1997; received the Percussive Arts Society Appreciation Award in 2001; received the Lawton Public School Friend of Education Award in 2003; received the Acclaimed Aggie Award in 2005; in June 2009 had the Charles S. Graybill, M.D. Courtyard at Cameron University dedicated in his honor for recognition of a lifetime of involvement and leadership with Cameron University and the community of Lawton/Fort Sill; and received the Mayor's City of Lawton Award for Excellence in 2015.

Investing himself in the community Dr. Graybill served as trustee of the McMahon Foundation from 1971-2013 and as Chairman of the McMahon Foundation Board of Trustees from 1980-2011. He established a monthly free Crippled Children's Clinic in Lawton during the polio epidemic of the 1950's and formed semi-annual clinics in Duncan, Altus and Frederick. He was a member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church where he served as past Senior Warden. He was past treasurer and member of the Board of Trustees of Comanche County Memorial Hospital, past chairman of the Cameron Committee of the Lawton Chamber of Commerce in the late 1960's, past president of the University of Oklahoma Dad's Association, 1973; founder and past president of Cameron University Foundation and a Lifetime President's Partners at Cameron University. He also established the Charles Shelly Graybill, M.D, Endowed Scholarship in Pre-Medicine Studies at Cameron University in 2007 to benefit deserving full-time students who are pursuing a course of study leading to acceptance into medical school.

He was a dedicated and devoted husband, father, and grandfather.  He had an easy manner and sense of fairness in all family, community, and professional interactions.  He loved to travel with his family.  And he was an avid fan and OU football season ticket holder for 65 years.

He is survived by his three sons and daughters in law, Charles S. "Chuck" Graybill, III and his wife Deborah, Salt Lake City, Utah, Bevan "Todd" Graybill and his wife Terral Shahan Graybill, Muskogee, Oklahoma and David Lowell Graybill and his wife Elizabeth "Beth" Wilson Graybill, Superior, Colorado; six grandchildren, Tyler Graybill and wife Kasia, Sydney Graybill, Erin Goss and husband Steve, Bevan Graybill, Sarah Frank and husband Andrew and Michael Graybill; a great granddaughter, Allie Elizabeth Goss; and a great grandson, Charles Anthony Graybill.

His parents, a granddaughter, Stephanie Graybill, and his sister, Dorothy Graybill Worthen, preceded him in death.

Memorial contributions may be made in honor of Dr. Graybill to the Cameron University Foundation, Office of University Advancement, Administration 245, 2800 West Gore Boulevard, Lawton, Oklahoma 73505 or to St. Andrew's Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 1256, Lawton OK 73502.