Funeral service for J.L. "Jake" Patterson, 97, former Lawton resident, will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday, April 29, 2015, in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mike Murray, Pastor, Lawton Heights Church of the Nazarene officiating. Mr. Patterson died Monday, April 27, 2015, in Plano, Texas. Burial will be in the Fairlawn Cemetery, Snyder. Mr. Patterson was born November 21, 1917 in Headrick, Oklahoma, to Claude and Virginia (Bennight) Patterson. He was a graduate of Mountain Park High School. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1945 and was a veteran of World War II. He later retired from the Air Reserve with the rank of Major. He was a machinist and had worked with the Electronic Systems Division of the Food Machinery Company. He married Jewell Mae Patterson on March 9, 1990 in Decatur, Texas. She preceded him in death on September 12, 2005. He was a member of Lawton Heights Church of the Nazarene and the Masonic Lodge. He is survived by a step son and his wife, Leon and Liz Patterson, Carrollton, Texas; a step daughter and her husband, Joan and Gary Eure, Katy, Texas; numerous step grandchildren and step great grandchildren; a niece, Gayle Patterson, California.