Funeral service for Eldon W. "Bud" Fehlhaber, 87, Lawton, will be 12:30 p.m. Monday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Steve Mallow, Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church officiating. Mr. Fehlhaber died Monday, February 6 in Lawton. Burial with military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born September 24, 1924 in Delia, Kansas to parents William A. and Emelia M. (Honig) Fehlhaber. As a boy and young man he excelled in basketball and baseball. He joined the United States Marine Corps two weeks after graduating from Liberty High School on May 13, 1942. His military service took him to the Marshall and Wake Islands in World War II and other locations as an aircraft mechanic. He returned to Nebraska where he graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1948, majoring in Industrial Arts and Physical Education. He met and married Ila F. Jeppesen and together they had five children. They moved to Lancaster, California in 1955, where he worked for Jet Propulsion Laboratory at Edwards Air Force Base and the Mariner Mission. The family moved to Escondido, California in 1962. He worked for Dynalectron as a Jet Engine Specialist in DaNang, 1968, during the Vietnam War and Tet Offensive. After relocating to Oregon and Northern California, where he invested in income properties, he returned to Nebraska to care for his mother in Beatrice. He moved to Lawton, Oklahoma in 1997 to be near his daughter. He loved to watch collegiate sports on television and was a great Nebraska BIG RED fan. He is survived by three sons, William S. Fehlhaber and JoAnne, El Cajon, California, Steven A. Fehlhaber and Colleen, Monroe, Utah and Ronald D. Fehlhaber, Cave Junction, Oregon; two daughters, Elizabeth Gay Mast, Cotopaxi, Colorado and Suzan J. Hart and Vic, Lawton, Oklahoma; eight grandchildren, eight step grandchildren, 19 great grandchildren and many wonderful cousins, nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, his only sibling, Lois Andreason, a grandson, Joseph Fehlhaber, and a great granddaughter, Sheisha Fehlhaber. The family will greet friends from 4-6 pm Sunday at the funeral home.