Age 84, Lawton - Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Dr. Ralph Alexander, officiating. Sergeant Purdum died Tuesday, May 6, in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. He was born December 15, 1923 in Santa Ana, California, to Perry V. and Louella Purdum. He married Byoung Hi Yoon on August 28, 1957 in Seoul, Korea. She preceded him in death on February 4, 2000. He graduated high school in Dewey, Oklahoma, and attended Draughon Business School for two years prior to entering the U.S. Army. He was a veteran of World War II, Korea and Vietnam and was a Pearl Harbor survivor. He retired from the Army at Fort Sill in July of 1968. Following his retirement he completed technical school at Okmulgee. He worked for Don's Donuts, as a jailer for both the City of Lawton and the Comanche County Sheriff's Department and later worked for the commissary at Fort Sill. He is survived by three daughters and two sons in law, Lolli Shotts, Oklahoma City, Eva and Brice Pontious, Zeigler, Illinois, and Karen Boyer and Ed Loveless, San Antonio, Texas; a son, Fritz Purdum, Lawton; seven grandchildren, Collin and Austin Shotts, Aubrey, Liz and Hannah Pontious, and Rebecca and Andrew Boyer; two sisters, Shirl Ortner, Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and Kathleen Smith, Perkins, Oklahoma; a brother, Marion Purdum, Copan, Oklahoma. A son, Jessie Purdum, a sister, Eva, and three brothers, Calvin, Jessie and Les, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the National Alzheimer Association, Oklahoma Regional Center, 5400 Grand Blvd., Suite 255, Oklahoma City OK 73112.