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Jasper

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Grigg

Jun 29, 1930 — Mar 11, 2011

Obituary

Memorial service for Jasper Grigg, 80, Lawton, will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in the First Baptist Church with Shane Hall, Pastor officiating. Mr. Grigg died Friday in Lawton. Interment for the family with full military honors will be Tuesday morning in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born June 29, 1930 in Macon County, Alabama to James Frank Grigg Sr. and Mary Lizzie Spratlin Grigg. He grew up in Tuskegee Alabama and was a member of the 1948 graduating class of Tuskegee High School. Jasper attended Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama, for one year and then graduated from Auburn University in June of 1953 and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army. Jasper married the former Allene Bilbrey of Lawton on June 18, 1954 in Lawton, Oklahoma. He worked for Civil Service at Fort Sill from 1955 until his retirement in 1985 and was also retired as a Colonel from the U.S. Army Reserves. Following his retirement he operated Jasper C. Grigg Consulting working as a private consultant to various defense contractors and was president of Allen J. Bilbrey Realty. He was a member of the First Baptist Church where he served as a deacon and Sunday school teacher. He was a past member of the Board of Directors with the U.S. Army Field Artillery Association, served two terms as a member of the Comanche County Excise Board and was a founding member of the Hearts That Care Volunteer Health Care Clinic. He is survived by Allene, his daughter Alece Grigg Newell and her husband Jack Newell and their children Michael Wade Newell and his wife Traci Harmon Newell and their son Harmon Wade Newell, Lori Michelle Newell, and Kathleen Southall Berg and her husband Robert Berg and daughter Madeline Faith Berg, his son James Allen Grigg and his wife Stephanie Millen Grigg and their children James Frank Grigg, Brian Carter Grigg and Mckenzie Rae Grigg, his "honorary daughter" Ingrid Ligett and her husband Stan Ligett. He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers, James Frank Grigg Jr., Thomas Cade Grigg, William Henry Grigg, Perry Ellison Grigg, and his sister Carrie Jeanette Grigg. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1409, Lawton OK 73502.

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