Graveside service for former Lawton resident COL (Retired) Charles Edward Howard will be at 10:00 AM Tuesday, June 9, 2015 at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. Burial with full military honors will be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. Colonel Howard, most recently of Saint Simeon's in Tulsa, Oklahoma, passed away on June 6, 2015 at the age of 93. He was born to F.E. Howard and Ava Estella (Atkinson) on November 21, 1921 in Anson, Texas. He enlisted in the Army while still in high school. By September 1940, he was ordered into federal service and served in both World War II and the Korean War. He rose to the rank of Colonel, graduating from US Army Command and General Staff College in 1958, traveled the world, including a stint at the Pentagon. He ended his military career as Commandant of the Fort Sill Army Artillery & Missile Officer Candidates School in June 1968. Upon retirement from the military, Charles obtained a bachelor's degree in English in 1971. He taught at Central Junior High School until retiring in 1986. He married Bobbye Raye Mosley on February 7, 1942 whom he treasured until her passing in 1993. His son, Michael Charles Howard also predeceased him in 2011. Charles is survived by his son, Mark Howard and his wife Barbara; grandson, Travis Bartlett-Howard and granddaughter, Amanda Rachel Howard.