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Elvin

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Browning

Oct 26, 1916 — Jun 30, 2008

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Age 91, Mountain Park - Graveside service will be at 2:00 PM Saturday in the Altus City Cemetery, Altus, Oklahoma Mr. Browning died Monday at a care facility in Snyder. Burial with full military honors will be under direction of Becker Funeral Home of Snyder. He was born October 26, 1916 in Newark, Arkansas to Van O. and Leona (Reeves) Browning. His family moved to Northeast Oklahoma when he was 4 and Southwest Oklahoma when he was 11. He married Chesta Lee Walker on December 31, 1939 in Shamrock, Oklahoma. She died November 20, 1980. He enlisted in the Army in September of 1936. He was a veteran of both World War II and the Korean Conflict. He participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy. He retired as a Master Sergeant after 23 years. He was self-employed from 1960-1966 in Snyder, Altus and Elgin. He moved to Cache in 1966 and was employed by civil service at Fort Sill until he retired in 1979. He owned his own welding shop from 1973 to 1998. He moved from Cache to Mountain Park in 1983. He is survived by his children, Carole Browning of Israel, John Browning and his wife Linda of Mountain Park, Alan Browning of Sacramento, California and Sue Browning of Meridian, Mississippi; 6 grandchildren, Bo George, Jared George and his wife Jennifer, Heather Chathamand and husband Steve, Max George, Rope Browning and Caitlin Chase; a great grandchild, Gracie George; a step granddaughter, Angela Blessing; a cousin, Lorene Cleaver of Binger, Oklahoma; a special companion, Priscilla Johnson of Lawton; and a special friend, Linda Ratliff. He was preceded in death by his parents, his wife, and four brothers and a sister.

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