Age 90, Lawton - Memorial service will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday in the First Christian Church with Rev. Kim Hames, Pastor officiating. Colonel Hawthorne died Friday in a Lawton hospital. Burial with full military honors will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. Colonel Hawthorne was born in Mansfield, LA on June 18, 1919. He graduated from the Pacific Military Academy in Culver City, CA and attended Louisiana State University until entering the U.S. Army in 1940. He served more than 30 years on active duty, during which time he completed his studies and obtained a degree from the University of Nebraska. He served tours at Ft. Polk, LA, the Command and General Staff College in Ft. Leavenworth, KS, and the Gunnery Department at Ft. Sill, Oklahoma. He activated and deployed to Europe the 3rd Battalion, 79th Artillery and Honest John Rocket Unit. He served with the 7th Army in Stuttgart, Germany and was assigned for three years with the Department of the Army Inspector General's office at the Pentagon. In 1966, he returned to Fort Sill as Deputy Director of Gunnery until his assignment in 1968 as Commander, Field Artillery Center. In 1969, he served in the Republic of South Vietnam as Deputy Commander, 1st Field Forces Artillery. Colonel Hawthorne returned to Fort Sill in 1970 and served as Deputy Director of Tactics and Combined Arms Department until his retirement in December 1972. Colonel Hawthorne was very active in the Lawton community after his retirement. He taught at the Federal Aviation Association Management School at Cameron University and served as the Western District Commissioner for Comanche County from 1979 to 1985. He was a deacon of the First Christian Church, the first president of The Retired Officers' Association (TROA) of Lawton, an active leader in Ducks Unlimited and served on the Lakes and Land Commission for the City of Lawton for several years. He is survived by his wife of 60 years, Katherine Kirby Hawthorne; daughter Lee Hawthorne Carrigan and husband Frank of Arlington, VA; daughter Kate Cheshire Hawthorne Cotton and husband John of Birmingham, AL; granddaughter Katherine Tone Carrigan of Arlington, VA; and grandsons Lee Hawthorne Cotton of Birmingham, AL, Benjamin Austin Cotton of Destin, FL, and Dr. John Ryan Cotton of Columbus, GA. He was proceeded in death by his parents, Martha Cheshire Hawthorne and Jonathan Franklin Hawthorne of Mansfield, LA, and two brothers, Louisiana Supreme Court Justice Francis Willard Hawthorne of Monroe, LA, and Harry Singleton Hawthorne of Bastrop, LA. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be made to the First christian Church, 701 SW "D" Avenue, Lawton, OK 73501.