Funeral for CSM (Retired) Jacinto S. Rivera, Jr., 81, Lawton will be at 9:30 AM Thursday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Harold Gaches, pastor of First Baptist West officiating. Sergeant Major Rivera died Sunday, May 13, 2012 in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. The family will receive friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Wednesday at the funeral home. He was born March 28, 1931 in Sulphur to Jacinto and Margrita (Sanches) Rivera. He married Helga M. Stoeckle on January 12, 1957 in Pirmasens, Germany. She died May 21, 2005. Sergeant Major Rivera joined the Army in 1952. He served tours in Germany, Korea and Vietnam. He received numerous awards and decorations to include the Silver Star. He retired from the Army at Fort Sill after thirty years of service. He was a member of the Retired Sergeants Major Association. Survivors include his daughter, Julia Rivera, of the home, three grandsons, James Adams, West Virginia, Bobby Bolden and his wife Lacy and Johnny Bolden, all of Lawton, five great grandchildren, Noah Bolden, Jaliyah Boman, Johnny Bolden, Jr., Aeriona Boman and Isaiah Bolden, sister, Rosa Gonzalez and her husband Lionel, Hamlin, Texas, and three brothers, Doroteo Rivera, Lawton, Raynaldo Rivera and his wife Karen, Germany and Rolando Rivera, Corpus Christi, Texas. He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, a sister, Mary Castillo and two brothers, Thomas and Richard Rivera.