Funeral service for David C. Lynn will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday, December 14, 2015 at Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church with the The Rev. Shelley Forrester, Rector officiating. Burial with military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. Mr. Lynn passed away on December 6, 2015 at Comanche County Memorial Hospital. His brothers were at his side at the time of his death. The family will greet friends from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. A leader in healthcare and hospital administration, with a proclivity for healthcare policy, Mr. Lynn was born October 4, 1948 in Oklahoma City. He grew up the first-born of three sons to Colonel and Mrs. Clark Lynn, Jr. As a child and young man, he moved with his family to New Haven, Connecticut; Fort Benning, Georgia; Monterey, California; Havana, Cuba; Quarry Heights, Panama Canal Zone; Fort Sill, Oklahoma; and Lawton. He graduated from Lawton High School in 1966 and went on to attend Tulane University from 1966-1968. He transferred to the University of Oklahoma in 1968 and graduated there with a Bachelor's Degree in Microbiology in 1970. Mr. Lynn entered the Army on active duty as an Medical Service Corps officer in early 1971, serving first as the Executive Officer of the 565th Medical Company (Ambulance) until 1973 in Fort Polk, Louisiana, and then as the Administrative Officer of the 209th General Dispensary/Hanau Health Clinic in Hanau, Germany from 1973-1976. In 1976, he entered into a Master's program in Healthcare and Hospital Administration at Duke University, graduating in 1978. Then, from 1979-1982, after pursuing advanced studies in healthcare policy, he returned to active duty as a Unit Administrator at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C. Mr. Lynn then went on to become an Assistant Hospital Administrator with Kaiser Foundation Hospitals in Southern California, serving at the Bellflower facility from 1982-1989, and the West Los Angeles facility from 1989-1992. He then became a self-employed healthcare consultant and entered into a Doctoral Program in Public Administration with the University of Laverne in Laverne, California. With a dissertation entitled "Correlates of Health Status: A Comparative Analysis of 14 OECD Countries," he graduated in 2003. Dr. Lynn then went on to become the Regional Administrator for Public Health for seven parishes in south-central Louisiana; the Director of Business Operations for Ambulatory Services of the John Peter Smith County Health Care System in Fort Worth, Texas; Administrative Officer for the Department of Nursing at Darnall Army Medical Center in Fort Hood, Texas; Business Analyst for the Decision Support Division there; Practice Management Specialist for the Frontier Medical Home in Lawton; and then as Senior Data Analyst with the Managed Care Division at Reynolds Army Hospital in Fort Sill. David is survived by brother James Stanford Lynn of Lawton; brother Clark Lynn III and his wife Katherine of Tyler, Texas; nephew James Brittingham Lynn and his wife Katie of Dallas, Texas; and two great nieces, Nora Pearlie Lynn and Mary Brittingham Lynn, also of Dallas, Texas. Memorial contributions may be made to Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church, 1313 SW D Ave, Lawton, OK 73501.