Funeral service for Flora Vernell Keefe, 87 Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Monday, June 1, 2015, in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Patrick Latham, Pastor, First Baptist Church officiating. Mrs. Keefe died Thursday, May 28, 2015, in Lawton. Burial will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. She was born October 30, 1927 in Eclectic, Alabama. She married SGM (Retired) James F. Keefe on February 14, 1971 at the Old Post Chapel at Fort Sill. He preceded her in death on July 16, 1991. She was primarily a homemaker but had worked as a receptionist at a physician's office for several years. She is survived by her daughters, Diane Flaherty, Houston, Texas, and Kathleen Newsome, Lawton; her sons, Damon Gates, Fairfax, Virginia, Barry Gates, El Paso, Texas, and James, Dallas, Texas; a sister, Patricia Jean Shores, Huntsville, Alabama; a niece, Regina Fulmer, Opelika, Alabama; several grandchildren and great grandchildren. Special friends, Judy and Jack Hoskins as well as numerous other friends. Her parents, sisters, Betty Jean Holley and Frances Langley, and a brother, John Thomas Adams, preceded her in death.