Age 88, Lawton - Funeral services will be at 10:00 a.m. Monday, July 12, 2010, at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel, with Rev. Royce Littrell officiating. Eugene "Gene" Goodin died Thursday, July 8, 2010, at his home, south of Lawton after a long battle with kidney and heart failure. Burial will be in Faxon Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 Sunday, July 11, at the funeral home. He was born December 20, 1921, on the family farm east of Lawton, Oklahoma, to Oscar and Nora Franklin Goodin. He started grade school at Flowermound Grade School, then attended the two-room grade school of Fairview. He finished grade school and attended high school at Faxon. The family moved to Pryor, Oklahoma during his last semester of high school, where he graduated from Pryor High School. The family moved back to south of Lawton in 1946, where Gene maintained a dairy and farm for 64 years. His family brought the first big herds of Holstein dairy cattle into this territory, first from Missouri, then from Wisconsin by train. Always a sports person, Gene played basketball and baseball during school, then became a Golden Gloves boxer, often coaching his brothers and other local boxers. He played fast-pitch softball, usually as catcher and coach, finally settling on bowling during the early sixties through 2009. He was a board member of the American Bowling Congress. Gene was also a school board member at Hillside and Geronimo schools for more than 14 years. He attended Wesley Chapel United Methodist Church of Lawton since 1955. He married Ruby Frances Rhodes March 11, 1949, in Lawton, Oklahoma. They had four children and six grandchildren. He is survived by his wife of the home; three daughters and two sons-in-law: Frances Louise and Barry Blake of Bedford, Texas; Beverly Sue and Reynaldo Herrera of Laredo, Texas; and Rebecca Eugenia Goodin of Bedford, Texas; a son and daughter-in-law, Michael Gene and Tammy Gail Goodin of Lawton, Oklahoma; six grandchildren: Jared Leon and Cade Quinten Blake, Cristina Marie and Jason Alexander Herrera, Ashley Danyel and Justin Michael Goodin; two brothers: John Goodin of Eufaula, Oklahoma and Virgil Goodin of Lawton, Oklahoma; and four brothers-in-law, Benny Allison of Lawton, Oklahoma, Glen Delbert Rhodes of Seattle, Washington, Donald Keith Rhodes of Cache, Oklahoma, and Richard Lynn Rhodes of Faxon; one sister-in-law, Gladys Marie Cassell and numerous nieces and nephews. He is also survived by his special granddaughter, Kelly Nelson. He was preceded in death by his parents and by his two sisters, Lavenia Jumper Little and Betty Allison. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Kidney Fund, 6110 Executive Blvd., Suite 1010, Rockville, MD 20852 or online at www.kidneyfund.org/give-now/gifts-in-memory/ .