Funeral service for Marguerite E. Geldernick, 84, Lawton will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, December 16, 2013 at the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel. Mrs. Geldernick died Tuesday, December 10 at a local care facility. Burial will be in Post Cemetery, Fort SiIl. The family will greet friends from 3-5 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home. Marguerite was born November 8, 1929 in Watertown, New York to Richard and Esther (Eggleston) Thompson. She lived in New York until age ten, and then traveled extensively with her mother and stepfather, Leonard Ferland, who was in the Army. She attended ten different schools in different states, graduating from the Osaka American School in Japan. She was in the first graduating class which included eleven students. While in Japan she worked in the service club playing records for the soldiers which was located in the Sogo Building in Osaka. When the Korean War broke out she was asked to work in the hospital as an admitting/statistical clerk for all of southern Japan. She met her husband to be at a Thanksgiving dinner in the mess hall. Her family always attended holiday dinners with the soldiers. She became engaged to Richard there. He was transferred to Korea for a year. When his tour was completed they returned to the United States by ship. They were forced to wait three days for their car to be offloaded from the ship and head for Wisconsin. Once in Wisconsin their family put together a church wedding in three days.. They traveled to numerous Army posts and overseas assignments during Richard's tour in the Army. After twenty two years they retired to the Lawton area where she managed their tool business until they retired again. They were married for fifty five years when he passed away on December 4, 2006. Survivors include three daughters, Darleen Snyder, Lawton, Diana Robinson, Ardmore and Donna Taylor and her husband Danny, Blanchard; four grandchildren, Michelle Taylor and her husband Jesse Cunningham, Lawton, Daniel Geldernick, Lawton, Tanya Casbeer and her husband Troy, Ardmore, and Clint Robinson, Lawton; five great grandchildren, Jason Taylor and wife Samantha Gehringer, Lawton, Brittney Cunningham, Lawton, Briana Alger, Michalah Casbeer and Nathan Casbeer, all of Ardmore; three great great grandchildren, Caleb Taylor and Jaxon Taylor, Lawton and Joseph Alger, Ardmore; a sister, Patricia Bradley, Conroe, Texas and three nephews, Keith Bradley and his wife Karen, Kyle Bradley and Kevin Bradley. She was preceded in death by her mother, stepfather, father and husband. Memorial contributions may be made to the Disabled American Veterans, 4704 Motif Manor, Suite 5, Lawton, OK 73505