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IN LOVING MEMORY OF

Keith Alan

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Wright

Jun 20, 1963 — Jul 28, 2014

Obituary

Funeral service for Keith Alan Wright, 51, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, August 1, 2014 , in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Keith Miles, Pastor, Central Baptist Church officiating. Keith was called to his eternal home on Monday, July 28, 2014 by Jesus Christ his Lord in Wichita Falls, Texas. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. He was born June 20, 1963 in Lawton to Bobby Ray and Mary Virginia Wright. He graduated from Eisenhower High School in 1981. He received his Bachelor Degree in Finance from the University of Oklahoma. During his school years he lettered in tennis in the seventh grade and played through high school. Keith and his doubles partner won state honors their senior year. Other activities he enjoyed were water skiing, snow skiing, camping, fishing and golf. He attended Central Baptist Church in Lawton from cradle roll until he went off to college. He worked summers as a bank teller and also continued helping his mom and dad at Wright's Frame Shop. After college, Keith was hired by Fidelity Investments as a stockbroker in Dallas, Texas. Also while in Dallas, he was saved at a Baptist church and continued serving the Lord wherever his job might take him. After working in Dallas for a while he transferred to Denver, Colorado. Here he received his Chartered Mutual Fund Counselor Certificate. Within a few years he was hired by Quick and Reilly to set up a stock brokerage in Houston, Texas, and later opened a second office in Sugarland, Texas, and finally a third office in north Houston, Texas. He served as stockbroker manager for the three offices for several years. As a manager he traveled to New York for meetings and visited the New York Stock Exchange on Wall Street. Keith married Lynn Marie Myhra while in Houston. After his father's death Keith returned to Lawton to help his mom run Wright's Frame Shop and Gallery, Inc. He had grown up in the framing business and also had a shop in Houston, Texas. Keith and his mom worked together for a few years until his health began to fail. At that time they both retired and the Lawton business was closed and the property sold. He is survived by his mother, Mary Wright, Lawton; aunts, Norma Jean Bowers and husband Carl, Duncan, Patsy Bertoldi and husband John, California, and Joanne Tompkins, Houston, Texas; as well as numerous cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his father, Bob Wright, maternal grandparents, John and Lillian Tompkins, paternal grandmother, Mrs. Leon Wright, uncle, David Tompkins, aunts Patricia Payne and husband Chad and Dorothy Gill, and uncle James Wright and wife Vera. Memorial contributions may be made to the charity of your choice or to the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Broadway Station, 900 S. Broadway, Suite 200, Denver, Colorado 80209-4198.

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