Funeral service for MSgt (Retired) Rev. Herschel R. Lindsey will be 9:30 a.m. Tuesday, January 5, 2016 in the First Baptist Church with Rev. Mike Tompkins and Rev. Carlton Campbell officiating.

Burial with full military honors will follow in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

The family will greet friends from 6-7 pm Monday at the funeral home.

Herschel R. Lindsey, age 83, passed away Friday, January 1, 2016 in Lawton. He was born December 4, 1932 in Waldo, Arkansas, to William Riley and Mary Frances (Harris) Lindsey. He grew up in Waldo and was a graduate of Waldo High School. He married Helen Ann Coffey on June 7, 1957 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Herschel began a career with the U.S. Air Force in 1951 serving as a Radiologic Technologist, Instructor in Air Force Medical Service School and an Instructional Systems Development Writer. He retired from the Air Force in 1971 as a Master Sergeant having been assigned to the USAF Hospital in Wiesbaden, Germany, Luke AFB, Arizona, Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, Warner Robins, Georgia, Thule AFB, Greenland, Gunter AFB, Alabama and Sheppard AFB, Texas. His awards and decorations include the Meritorious Service Medal (AF), Air Force Outstanding Unit Award, AF Good Conduct Medal with three Bronze Loops, Army of Occupation Medal (Germany), National Defense Service Medal with one Bronze Star and the AF Longevity Service with four Oak Leaf Clusters.

Herschel graduated from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth, Texas. He pastored churches in Texas, Tennessee and Oklahoma. At the time of his death he was a member of First Baptist Church, Lawton.

He was a member of the American Registry of Radiologic Technologist, American Society of Radiologic Technologist and the Air Force Sergeants Association.

He is survived by his wife, Helen, of the home; two daughters and sons in law, Cynthia Ann and Steve Wall, Lawton and Rhonda Kay and Howard Hicks, Snyder; two grandchildren, Elizabeth Ann Adams and husband Corey, Lawton and Nathaniel Glynn Hicks, Snyder; brothers, Bill Lindsey and wife Agnes, Hope, Arkansas and Wilbur Lindsey, Yarmouth, Maine; a sister, Mary Jean Phillips, Stamps, Arkansas; sister in law, Mary Lindsey, Charlottesville, Virginia; step sister, Darlene Hutchison, Brownsboro, Texas.

His parents, brothers, Robert J. and Theodore Lindsey, a step brother, I.K. Adair, and his half sister, Baby Frances Casweell, preceded him in death.

Memorial contributions may be made to First Baptist Church, 501 SW B Avenue, Lawton OK 73501.