Memorial service for Luther "Butch" Hargrove, 67, Lawton, will be 3:00 pm July 14, 2011 in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with John Echols officiating. Mr. Hargrove died Friday in Lawton. Services are under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Butch was born February 21, 1944 in Cement, Oklahoma to Luther A. and Mary Belle (Perryman) Hargrove. In his early years he worked with his father in the oilfields around Cement before working for the state on the H.E. Bailey Turnpike. Butch then worked for the Lawton Constitution as a linotype operator and then as a page composer after they were computerized. He retired after forty one years. He was the first chairman of the Lawton/Fort Sill Co-op program. He married Judy House in Lawton on December 18, 1976. He is survived by his wife of the home; two sons and their wives, Gary and Tresa Hargrove and Greg and Tracy Hargrove all of Lawton; three grandchildren, Miranda Hargrove, Mason Hargrove and Madilyn Hargrove; three brothers, Robert and his wife Lois Hargrove, Cement, Dubby Hargrove, Granbury, Texas, Jack Hargrove, Cement; two sisters, Frances McCracken, Apache and Linda Cottrell and her husband Teddy, Fletcher; and numerous nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his parents; a niece, Summer Swanda; a sister in law, Carolyn Hargrove and a brother in law, Chub McCracken. Memorial contributions may be made to the National Alzheimer Assn., OK Regional Center, 5400 Grand Blvd., Suite 255, Oklahoma City, OK 73112.