Memorial service for James Clifford Cast will be 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, November 14, 2017 in Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel.

Placement of cremated remains with military honors will be in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin.

James Clifford Cast, age 72, died Tuesday, November 7, 2017 in Edmond, Oklahoma.  He was born February 7, 1945 in Crane, Texas to Henry and Wanda Joy Cast.  He grew up in New Mexico, Stillwater, Oklahoma and graduated high school in Edmond, Oklahoma.  He later earned his bachelor's degree in Art from Central State University in Edmond.  While attending college he worked as a photographer as well as for the campus newspaper.

James moved to the Lawton area where he began a career with Civil Service at Fort Sill.  In the early 1980's he served as mayor of Medicine Park and was proud of beginning the project to restore Medicine Creek.  He was a past member of the Society for Creative Anachronism and enjoyed attending Mountain Man Rendezvous.

He is survived by his son and daughter-in law, James C. and Anna Cast, Lawton; his twin daughters, Heather Henderson and Jennifer Brooks, both of Lawton; five grandchildren, Ariana, Rheandra and Conor Cast, Caleb Brooks and Robert Henderson; two brothers, Allen Rice, Edmond, and Frank Cast, Oklahoma City; his sister, Linda Cast, Tennessee; several nieces and nephews.

His parents, step father, Loyd Rice, brother, Ricky Cast, and sister, Margene Green, preceded him in death.