Funeral for Raymond Maurice Meyer, 99, Lawton will be at 2:00 PM Wednesday at the First Baptist Church with Dr. William F. Watkins and Ken Couch officiating. Mr. Meyer died Sunday, November 27, 2011 in Oklahoma City. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. He was born June 15, 1912 in Geronimo in the home of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. T. L. Meyer. He graduated from Lawton High School in 1930 and finished Cameron Junior College in the spring of 1933. Mr. Meyer carried newspapers for the Daily Oklahoman and the Oklahoma City Times for two years from 1931 to 1933. He had worked in a grocery store at 6th and Park Ave. He and his father owned and operated the Lincoln Grocery from 1935 until January 1942. He was drafted into the Army and served with the 45th Infantry Division, Company L, 180th Infantry where he participated in the invasion of Sicily and earned the Presidential Unit Citation for taking the inner city of Nuremburg, Germany on April 19 and 20, 1945. He also was awarded the Bronze Star Medal. He married Edna P. Allen on January 5, 1946 in Lawton. She died August 28, 2010. He was then called back to service with the 45th Infantry Division in 1950 to prepare for the Korean War. He was discharged in the summer of 1951. He worked for Civil Service at the Commissary at Fort Sill beginning in August 1945 and retired after twenty six years of service as the assistant manager. He had been a member of the First Baptist Church since January 1925, where he served as a deacon. He was the Children's Division Sunday School Secretary for fifty years, from 1951 to 2001. Mr. Meyer attended Dr. Charles Pritchard's Sunday School Class. Survivors include a granddaughter, Chelsea Meyer, Lawton, daughter-in-law, Teresa Meyer, Lawton and a niece and her husband, Judy and Loren Atwood, Oklahoma City. He is preceded in death by his wife and a son, Eddie. Memorial contributions may be made to the First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 1409, Lawton, OK 73502.