Funeral for former Lawton resident Evelyn Catherine Hight, 80, Mineola, Texas will be at 9:00 AM Friday, February 7, 2014 at the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Roger Snow officiating. Mrs. Hight went to be with the Lord on Sunday, February 2, 2014 at the Wood Memorial Nursing Home in Mineola, Texas, where her daughter works, after battling cancer of the pancreas. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. She was born October 22, 1933 in Lawton to Frederick and Florence (Swanson) Davis. She married Oliver Lee Hight, who served in the military for twenty seven years, on January 12, 1953 in Lawton. He died March 26, 1999. She traveled to Germany twice while her husband was in the Army. She was a member of the Order of the Easter Star, Lawton Chapter 82, where she was a Past Worthy Matron. She was also a member of Central Baptist Church and the Military Widows of Fort Sill, Oklahoma. She moved from Lawton to be close to her oldest daughter when she became ill. She is survived by three children and their spouses, Deborah and John Potts, Quitman, Texas, Margaret Eason, Roff, Oklahoma and Charles and Rhonda Hight, Lawton, eight grandchildren, eleven great grandchildren and a sister, Nathalee Blackburn and her husband Sam, Little Rock, Arkansas. She was preceded in death by her husband and her parents and a son-in-law, Gary Eason.