Graveside service for Everett Alfred Mietchen, 88, Lawton, will be at 10:00 am Friday in the Highland Cemetery with Rev. Charles Pettigrew, Pastor of Liberty Heights Christian Church, Lawton officiating. Mr. Mietchen died Tuesday, June 5, 2012 in Oklahoma City. Burial with Navy Honors will be in Highland Cemetery under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born February 8, 1924 in Oklahoma City to Alfred Jay and Randolph (Johnson) Mietchen. He grew up in Lawton and graduated from Lawton High School, where he was a member of the marching band. He loved telling stories of the Lawton High band performing in the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. While attending ROTC at Oklahoma State University, he volunteered for active service in the US Navy on July 14, 1943. During WW II, he served in the Fleet Air Wing Headquarters Squadron and Patrol Bombing Squadron as an Aviation Machinist's Mate 3rd Class, in the European, African and Middle Eastern Theaters. After the war, he served in the Shore Patrol. He was honorably discharged from the Navy in Bremerton, WA on April 22, 1946. His awards included the American Area Campaign Medal, European African Middle Eastern Area Campaign Medal, and the WW II Victory Medal. He returned to Lawton after his discharge from the Navy, and married Marion Viola Anderson on February 10, 1947 in Gallup, NM. Over his working career, he was employed as a carpenter, worked with the Fort Sill Post Engineers, and worked in sales at Montgomery Wards. He was a journeyman carpenter and craftsman, recognized for his carpentry skills. He built numerous schools, hospitals, businesses and Montego Bay throughout the Lawton/Fort Sill area. He was a member of the Carpenter's Union. Survivors include his wife of 65 years, Marion, three sons and daughters-in-law: David and Jo, Danny and Jana, Darrell and Kathy, all of Lawton, a daughter and son-in-law, Carol and Dennis Collins of Norman, OK, nine grandchildren, Chris Mietchen, Victoria Hardin, Brad Mietchen, Jennifer Killion, Angela Jackson, Rachel Weathers, Robin Mietchen, Christopher Collins and Shawn Mietchen, nineteen great grandchildren, Rhett Hardin, Clayton, Samantha, and Mackenzie Mietchen, Paige, Turner, Hunter Tharp, James and Claire Killion, Wade Perkins, Victoria, Maddie, Ava and Cameron Jackson, Josh, Lindsey, Rebecca and Stormi Weathers, and Lorraine Mietchen. He was preceded in death by his parents, a brother Arden Mietchen and a granddaughter Carla Tharp.