Age 69, Lawton - Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday in the First Christian Church with Rev. Kim Hames, Pastor, officiating. David passed away August 30, 2010 at the San Juan Medical Center in Farmington, New Mexico. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. David was born in Lawton on April 20, 1941 to David F. and Kate (King) Lucas. He attended Washington Elementary, Central Junior High and Lawton High School, graduating in 1959. On June 30, 1961 he married Virginia Stanley, and they have two children, Susan Lucas Crowell and Kimberly Lucas Barnthouse. He attended Cameron University and graduated with a bachelor's degree in music from Phillips University in Enid in 1965. He later received his master's degree from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford. In 1965 David began his teaching career as band director of Eisenhower Junior High which at that time was located in the high school building. He began teaching as the high school band director in 1967. He taught at Eisenhower for 34 years before retiring in 1998. David was honored as Lawton's Teacher of the Year for 1982. He has served in various positions of leadership for the Oklahoma Bandmaster's Association. During his career and after retirement, he served as an adjudicator for the Oklahoma Secondary Activities Association and Tri State Music Festival in Enid. In 2001 David was inducted into the Oklahoma Bandmaster's Hall of Fame. He was a member of NEA, OEA, MENC and OBA organizations. David and Virginia volunteered for the U.S. Forest Service Information Center on Highway 145 in the San Juan National Forest in Rico, Colorado for nine years. He was volunteering until the time of his death. He loved being with his three grandsons very much and accompanied them at music festivals and drove the golf cart at Junior PGA golf tournaments. David was a lifetime member of First Christian Church and was a member of the church choir. He has served as choir director, organist, deacon and member of the First Christian Church Memorial Trust Board. David enjoyed camping, golfing, fishing, dutch oven cooking and traveling in his RV. He was a member of the Wichita Mountains Good Sam Club. He is survived by his wife Virginia of 49 years; his daughters, Susan and son-in-law David Crowell and grandsons, Chad and Lucas, of Tulsa, Oklahoma and Kimberly and son-in-law Michael Barnthouse and grandson, Joshua, Enid, Oklahoma. David is also survived by his brother Frank Lucas and sister-in-law, Carol, a nephew, Greg, all of Oklahoma City, a niece Keena Lucas Pratt and her husband, Daryl Pratt, Frisco, Texas, also his brother-in-law Michael Stanley, Lawton, and two nephews, Corey Stanley, Benton, Louisiana and Justin Stanley, Cache, Oklahoma, a niece Kristen Stanley Arnold and her husband Brandon, Lawton. Other survivors are his sister-in-law, Sylvia Stanley Weber and her husband David Weber, Colorado Springs, Colorado and Elmer, Oklahoma, two nephews, Rob Minor and Mark Minor and a niece, Cindy Minor Faulkner and her husband Jeff, all of San Jose, California. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Christian Church Memorial Trust Fund, 701 SW D Ave., Lawton, OK 73501.