Funeral for MAJ (Retired) Curtis D. Ford, 58, Lawton will be at 12:30 PM Friday, February 6, 2015 at Northwest Church of Christ with Mike Ford and Monte Ginnings officiating. MAJ Ford died Sunday, January 25, 2015 at Baylor All Saints Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas. Burial with full military honors will be at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. The family will greet friends from 6:30 PM until 8:00 PM Thursday, February 5, 2015 at the funeral home. Curtis was born August 13, 1956, in Las Vegas, Nevada to Ted and Ivy Ford. He moved several times with his family while his father was serving in the Air Force. Curtis attended New Mexico State University after graduating from Clovis High School, Clovis, New Mexico. He left college in his junior year to enlist in the Army. His last Army assignment was with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment as a tank driver. After his enlisted time in the Army, he moved to San Antonio, Texas, where his parents had retired. In 1986 through an ROTC program, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science Degree at the University of Texas at San Antonio in the same ceremony as his brother Landis and his sister Kathyrn. Curtis then continued his military career as an officer achieving the rank of Major before retiring at Ft. Sill in 2003. He was proud to serve his country in the Army especially to serve once again with the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment, while he was deployed to Bosnia in 1997-1998. He received numerous medals and awards during the course of his enlisted and Army officer career, including Armed Forces Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal (5th Award), Army Commendation Medal, NATO Medal, Army Achievement Medal (4th Award), Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal (2nd Award), Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, Noncommissioned Officer's Professional Development Ribbon with Numeral 2, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon (3rd Award). Curtis met Betty Gulley in San Antonio, Texas, and married there on July 14, 1984. Together they raised one son, Theodore Roger Ford III (Trey). During his Army career, Curtis and the family lived in Georgia, Ohio, Texas, Germany, New Jersey, Louisiana and Oklahoma. Curtis was also deployed without his family to Korea (1987) and Bosnia (1997-1998). Throughout his life, in the various cities he lived, Curtis was a faithful Christian worshipping with the Church of Christ. Since moving to Lawton, in the year 2000, he attended the Northwest Church of Christ. He was very active in teaching Sunday School classes, teaching and playing Bible characters for Vacation Bible School, hosting Teen devotionals, assisting and teaching a worship service for the new trainees at Ft. Sill, conducting a worship service for prisoners at the Lawton Correctional Facility and teaching Bible studies during the church's annual Back-to-the-Bible campaigns. Curtis deeply loved his wife, son, daughter-in-law and granddaughter. He was very proud of his son's choices and accomplishments in life and especially his choice in wife. The last two years, his granddaughter Zella was a bright shining light in his life as he took joy in reading to her and teaching her how to put together jigsaw puzzles. Curtis is survived by his wife, Betty, of the home, a son and his wife, Trey and Monica Ford of Wichita, Kansas, and their daughter, Zella. He is also survived by his mother, Ivy Ford of Cedar Park, Texas, and three brothers, a sister, two brother-in-laws, nieces, nephews, grandnephews and grandnieces: brothers - Landis Ford and wife, Sondra, of Richardson, Texas; Mike Ford and wife, Melody, of Lubbock, Texas; Roger Ford and wife, Anastasia, of Santiago, Chile; sister - Kathryn Munoz and husband, Bill, of Cedar Park, Texas, and brother-in-laws - William Gulley and JimBo Gulley, both of Austin, Texas; nieces - Heather Tucker and husband, Rodney; Nicole Ford; Micala Schofield and husband, Jeremy; Michelli Keith and husband, Alex; nephews - Chris Ford and wife, Ashley; Jason Ford and wife Elisa; Alejandro Munoz; Daniel Munoz; Jacob Munoz; Tony Ford; and Danny Ford; grandnephews and grandnieces: Max, Eli, Emery and Sophia. He is preceded in death by his father, Theodore Roger Ford (Ted). Memorial contributions may be made to the Polycystic Kidney Disease Foundation, 8330 Ward Parkway, Suite 510, Kansas City, MO 64114.