Funeral service for former Lawton resident Gleason Thomas Poolaw-Grover, 43, will be 10:00 am Tuesday, May 20, 2014 at the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Doug Passmore, pastor, First Baptist East, officiating. Mr. Poolaw-Grover died Thursday, May 15, in Richland, Washington. Burial with military honors will be in the Memory Lane Cemetery, Anadarko. He was born August 14, 1970 in the Ft. Sill Indian Hospital, to Joan Grover Cooke and Michael Poolaw. He was a member of the Kiowa Tribe. He graduated from Upper St. Clair high school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1988, where he was a stand-out hockey player. He attended the University of Kansas. He was united in marriage to Carrie Barber in 1991. He served proudly in the United States Army from 1993 to 2005. Later he was a civilian contractor for a defense company. Gleason enjoyed golfing, NHL hockey, and the University of Kansas men's basketball. He is survived by his wife, Carrie; two daughters, Aubrey, 22, and Alysh, 18; his mother, Joan Grover-Cooke; his father, Michael Poolaw; two half brothers, Michael Poolaw, Jr. and Donald Poolaw; and his half sister, Michelle Poolaw-Albin.