Graveside funeral service for COL (Retired) George F. Stanley will be 1:00 p.m. Tuesday, May 9, 2017 in Fort Sill National Cemetery.

Arrangements are under direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

COL (Retired) George F. Stanley, age 87, died Thursday, May 4, 2017 in Clinton, Oklahoma.  He was born in Loris, South Carolina on October 12, 1929.  He attended and graduated from Porter Military Academy in Charleston, South Carolina (1947) and Loris High School (1948).  He married Marian Lee Krisher on July 31, 1954 in Lawton.  She preceded him in death on December 18, 2008.

He received a B.S. degree from Clemson University and was designated a distinguished military graduate (1953).  He also graduated from the Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.  He served as an advisor to the Korean Military Advisory Group in Seoul, South Korea, as Commander of printing and publication division in Panama C.Z. and served in Peru with the Army military group.  He spent ten years in artillery and was a battery commander.

While in the Army Reserve he served as a resources management officer for nine western states.  Upon retirement in 1977 he received the Army meritorious Service award, "the fourth highest award given", the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and several other awards.

He entered banking in Salt Lake City, Utah.  He received his MBA in accounting from the University of Utah.  While in Utah, he served asa Housing Commissioner for two years.  He managed Trust Divisions at Carlsbad National Bank in New Mexico, Victoria Bankshares Bank in Texas, and City National Bank in Wichita Falls, Texas (currently Wells Fargo Bank).

He was active with the Quail Springs United Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.

He is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, David T. and Kim Stanley, Edmond, Oklahoma; five grandchildren, Kevin Stanley, Jill Hallstrom and husband Allan, Lindsey Kirk and husband Jeremy, Zachary Stanley and McKenzie Stanley; four great grandchildren, his sister Mary Currie, Loris, South Carolina; and his brother, Harold G. Stanley, Charleston, South Carolina.

His son, George Scott Stanley, his brother, PFC Julian Carr Stanley who was killed in WWII at the age of 19 and who received the Purple Heart for valor, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Stanley, and three sisters, Iris Lee Buddin, Louise Hardee Somers and Lois Cannon, preceded him in death.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Clinton Veterans Center, 1701 S. 4th Street, Clinton OK 73601.