Funeral service for John Richard Black, 74, Lawton, will be held Monday, December 20, in Bellbrook, Ohio. Mr. Black died December 7 in a Duncan care center. Burial will be in Bellbrook, Ohio. Local arrangements are under the care of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. The family will receive friends from 6-8 pm on Monday at the funeral home. Mr. Black was born July 26, 1936 in Dayton, Ohio to John Edwin and Helen Louise (Miller) Black. He grew up in Bellbrook, Ohio. He married Jean Louise Zechar on April 6, 1957. She died in 1998. Mr. Black had worked at the Brookside Garage in Bellbrook, National Cash Register in Dayton and Monarch Machinery in Sidney, Ohio. He was a lifetime member of the NRA, and a charter member of the NRA Golden Eagles. He was also a member of Masonic Lodge No. 163 in Waynesville, Ohio, the Scottish Rite, the Shriners, Black Hawk Rifle Club and the Ohio Rifle and Pistol Association. He received his 35 year pin from the Masonic Lodge. His hobbies and interests included working on cars and race cars, competition shooting, archery, hunting, fishing and canoeing. Survivors include three children and their spouses, Cynthia and David Rozell, Lawton, Randy and Melanie Black, Brandon, Florida and Alan Black, Bellbrook, Ohio, nine grandchildren, one great grandchild, a sister, Patricia Louise Smallwood and her husband Oris, Centerville, Ohio and an aunt, Virginia Black Kable, Bellbrook.