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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

James L.

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Page, Sr.

Dec 4, 1923 — Jun 15, 2014

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Funeral service for James L. Page, Sr., 90, Lawton will be at 1:00 pm Saturday, June 21, 2014 at First Baptist West Lawton, with Bro. Harold Gaches, Pastor, Rev. William Arnold, Lawton and Deacon Jim Coe, Lawton officiating. Mr. Page passed away Sunday, June 15, 2014 in Lawton. Burial with full military honors and Masonic Rites will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. He was born December 4, 1923 in Winder, Georgia to William L. and Nancy A. (Segars) Page. After graduating from high school he attended Haber Sham College, NYA where he learned metal processes, fabrication and welding. After school he worked for Glenn L. Martin Aircraft Company in Baltimore, MD. Here he built B-26 attack bombers. He resigned his job to enter the US Navy in February of 1943. He served in WW II, Korea and Vietnam. While in the Navy he earned many awards and citations. He married his wife of 63 years Marie M. McDowell on October 20, 1945 in Oklahoma City. She died May 2, 2009. She was the love of his life and traveled with him to many duty stations stateside and overseas. He was a qualified aerial gunner, plane captain, flight engineer, maintenance instructor and maintenance chief of a heavy attack bomber squadron when he retired. Senior Chief Page served on many aircraft carriers, with many squadrons and at various bases during his 23 years of Naval Service. After his retirement from the Navy in 1965, he was employed in Civil Service at Fort Sill as a mechanic for 22 years. He was a 32nd Degree of Scottish Rite Mason of the Davidson Lodge #103 of Barrow County, Georgia. He had been a member of the Davidson Lodge since August 1946. Survivors include his son Jim Page, Jr. and wife Carol of Lawton, granddaughter Tonya Riley of Destin, FL, and many nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, parents, seven sisters and three brothers.

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