Funeral service for Robert Herschel Meacham, Jr., 90, Lawton will be at 10:30 am Saturday, February 8, 2014 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Gary Neighbors, Elgin officiating. Mr. Meacham died Tuesday, February 4, 2014 at his home in Lawton. Burial with military honors will be in Highland Cemetery, Lawton under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. * The family will greet friends Thursday evening at the funeral home from 6pm until 8pm * He was born April 5, 1923 in Castleberry, Alabama to Robert Herschel and Katherine (Burnett) Meacham. He attended Auburn University from 1941 until 1942. He joined the US Army in December of 1942, and served for five years. He was honorably discharged at Letterman General Hospital in San Francisco, CA in 1948 at the rank of First Lieutenant. He was a liaison pilot graduating in class #114 at Fort Sill, OK. He married Martha "Jeanne" Gray on May 19, 1945 in Lawton. She passed away September 28, 2004. After his discharge from the Army, he operated a small grocery store in Lawton for three years. He then worked for the US Postal Service for fourteen and a half years and the IRS for sixteen and a half years before retiring in 1981. He went back to work for the Oklahoma Tax Commission as an auditor for eleven years before finally retiring in 1991. He is survived by his three granddaughters, Gynger Smith & David Long of Lawton, Heather Ballou and husband Bailey of Elgin, Charlotte Spaulding of Lawton and five great grandchildren; Merrick Ballou, Keagan Faulkner, Brodey Ballou, Knox Avenall and Lennon Avenall. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife, daughter Susan Katherine Spaulding and a sister Louise Doleman.