Funeral service for CW3 (Retired) George Summers, 95, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, May 4, 2015 in St. Andrew's Episcopal Church with The Rev. Shelley Forrester, Rector officiating. Mr. Summers died Wednesday, April 29, 2015 in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. He was born April 10, 1920 at Fort Sam Houston, TX. He attended schools in San Antonio, TX and Hawaii. He enlisted in the Army July 1, 1939 at Fort Sam Houston, TX and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps in January, 1942. In World War II, he served 37 months with the 24th Infantry Division and HQ 8th US Army in campaigns through New Guinea and the Philippine Islands earning 6 Overseas Bars. He received the following military decorations: Army Commendation Medal, Good Conduct Medal with 3 Knots, American Defense Service Medal, American Campaign Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Medal with 3 Campaign Stars and one Invasion Arrowhead World War II Victory Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Philippine Liberation Medal with one Campaign Star, US Presidential Unit Citation, and Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. During his military career, he served at Fort Sam Houston, TX, Schuylkill Arsenal, Philadelphia, PA, Fort Lee, VA (three tours) Fort Francis E. Warren, WY, Schofield Barracks, HI, Fort Sill, OK (three tours), HQ, Oklahoma Military District(ORC), Tinker Air Force Base OK, Metz Quartermaster Depot, Metz, France, Fort Hood, TX, Fort Polk, LA, and HQ KMAG, Korea. He retired at Fort Sill, OK in February, 1961. He was employed for 13 years in management positions at Fort Sill Officers' Open Mess and 9 years as Chief NAF Section, Civilian Personnel Office, Fort Sill, OK. He married Deanie Guinn January 1949 at Fort Smith, AR. When their son reached scouting age, they became a Scouting Family. They attended Training Courses at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico. His wife was a Den Leader Coach. He was a Boy Scout Leader, serving as Cubmaster, Scoutmaster, Explorer Post Advisor and Order of the Arrow Lodge Advisor. During his tenure as Scoutmaster of Troop 145, St Pauls' United Methodist Church the troop produced an unprecedented 45 Eagle Scouts and started many other scouts on that trail who went on to that rank elsewhere. He, himself, became an Eagle Scout in February 1937. He was a Vigil Honor member of Order of the Arrow and earned the Founders' Award - the highest honor bestowed by The Order of the Arrow. He also received the Sooner Plains District Award of Merit and the Silver Beaver, the highest award from Black Beaver Council. His wife, Deanie, was awarded the Silver Faun at the same ceremony. He also received the Cross and Flame awarded by The Methodist Church for service to youth. He also was a 4 Bead Wood-badger. He attended St Mary's University San Antonio, TX, University Of Texas (Austin) where he was a member of Phi Kappa Sigma social fraternity and Alpha Phi Omega, a service fraternity made up of former and current members of Boy Scouts and University of Oklahoma (Fort Sill campus). He was an advisor to Alpha Phi Omega, Cameron University and a DeMolay Dad for a number of years. He obtained a Private Pilot License in February 1948 from the old Lawton Municipal Airport then located on Southwest 6th Street. He was a 32nd Degree Scottish rite Mason, Guthrie Consistory and a member of Mount Scott Masonic Lodge No 540 receiving a 50 year pin from the lodge and a 50 year cap from Guthrie Consistory in 2002. He received his 60 year apron in 2013. He was a Past Worthy Patron of Charity Chapter, Order of the Eastern Star Lawton, OK He was a member of St Andrew's Episcopal Church serving as Senior Warden, Chalice Bearer and Lay Reader. Having received Baptism in 1927 in St John's Episcopal Church, San Antonio, TX , he regarded himself as a "Cradle Episcopalian". He was a HAM Radio operator KK5QY an Extra class license, he also taught Amateur Radio to many and served as president of the local HAM club W5KS Lawton-Fort Sill Amateur Radio Club for a time in the 1990's. He is survived by a son, David W. Summers Lawton, OK and a friend like a son, LTC David M. Bowen and his wife Jennifer and children Meghan and Justin. Both boys are Eagle Scouts and Vigil Honor Members of Order of the Arrow He was preceded in Death by his father who was captured by the Japanese at the fall of the Philippine Islands in April 1942; made the Bataan Death March and died in a Japanese POW camp in December 1942; by his mother in June 1971 and by his wife in August 1983.