Age 91, formerly of Lawton - Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Thursday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Dr. William F. Watkins, Baptist minister, officiating. Mr. Stinnett died Monday in Oklahoma City. Burial with military honors will be at Flower Mound Cemetery. He was born January 18, 1918 in Lawton to Glenn and Maymie (Prichard) Stinnett. He attended school in Lawton and graduated from Lawton High School with the class of 1935. He received his Associates degree from Cameron Junior College in 1937. He served in the Army Air Corps in World War II in the North Africa and European Theatres as the copilot, 1LT, with the 394th Bomb Group, flying 56 missions in the "The Widow Maker", a B-26 bomber. After the war, he was employed by the Lawton and Ft. Sill post offices until his retirement in 1974. He married Sybil Juanita Freeman in Lawton on January 12, 1947. She died on January 14, 1995. Merle traveled with his family extensively throughout the US, camping at most of the state and national parks. Merle loved to fish with his dad, son and Uncle Rif. Merle entertained his family by playing home movies backwards and enjoyed telling stories of his travels. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Lawton. He is survived by a son and daughter in law, Edwin Stinnett II and Edna of Oklahoma City; two daughters, Marilyn Frazier of Oklahoma City and Kimberly Woodson of Leesburg, Virginia; three grandchildren, Rachel Woodson and Andrew Woodson of Leesburg, Virginia and Noelle Frye of Lawton; a great grandson, Isaiah Frye; a sister and brother-in-law, Dorothy and Neal Goode, Lawton; a nephew, Randy Goode and his wife Remy, Lawton; and a niece, Karen Hall and her husband Jeff, Lawton. A special sister-in-law Vesta Pariseau, California. Memorial Contributions may be sent to the First Baptist Church, PO Box 1409, Lawton, OK 73502