Funeral service for Marjorie J. Puckett, 97, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Friday, March 21, 2014, in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel. Mrs. Puckett died Wednesday, March 19, 2014, at her residence. Burial will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill, under the direction of the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. She was born June 23, 1916 in Deerfield, New York, to Earl Thomas and Harriet (Bullock) Jones. She was raised in New York and obtained her teaching certificate from the Oneonta State Teachers College in Oneonta, New York. She taught in several one room schoolhouses and following World War II she went to Germany to teach children of American soldiers. While there she met and married Colonel (Retired) Alvin L. Puckett. They were married on September 2, 1949 in Munich, Germany, and he preceded her in death on December 27, 1996. She followed her husband in his military career, had served as a substitute teacher but was primarily a homemaker. She enjoyed flower gardening and was a past president of the Lawton Iris Society. She is survived by three daughters and two sons in law, Marjorie Laurene and Richard DeLong, Oklahoma City, Anita and Richard Haddock, Tremont, Illinois, and Judith Graves, Hermon, Maine; two sons and a daughter in law, David and Berniece Puckett and James Puckett, all of Lawton; six grandchildren; five great grandchildren; a sister, Ardyth Thompson, New York. Her parents and two sisters preceded her in death.