Gene and Jo have been reunited at last!  On Friday, February 3, 2017, Gene Butcher went home to his heavenly father and beloved wife.

Funeral service for CW4 (Retired) Oliver "Gene" Butcher will be at 1:30 pm Monday, February 6, 2017 at Calvary Assembly of God with Rev. Byron G. Elmore officiating.

Burial with full military honors will follow at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends Sunday, February 5, 2017 at the funeral home.

He was born in Spartanburg, SC on May 18, 1933 and moved to West Sacramento, CA before he entered school, graduating in 1952 and immediately entering the U.S. Army.  He saw Combat in Korea and two tours in Vietnam before becoming a warrant officer in 1967.  He retired in 1980 following his third assignment at Fort Sill.  He was a member of Calvary Assembly of God in Lawton, joining after his retirement and remaining a member until God called him home.  Following his retirement, he kept busy working as management for Love's and Jewel-T Companies, also as a government contractor and at RV Connection here in Lawton before ill health forced a non-working retirement.

He is survived by his two daughters, Deborah (his caregiver of the home) and Sandie Hicks of Union Springs, AL.  His grandson Branson Hicks and granddaughter Callie Atkins and her husband Hugh of Midway, AL.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers, that donation's of time or money be made to Disabled Veterans of America.