Funeral service for Ronald Phillip Harred, 66, Elgin will be at 1:00 PM Friday, October 3, 2014 at the First Baptist Church in Fletcher with Chaplain Charles Leggett, Faith Hospice and Larry Thoma, pastor of First Assembly of God, Elgin officiating. Mr. Harred died Tuesday, September 30, 2014 in Elgin. Burial will be at Fletcher Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home of Fletcher. He was born November 24, 1947 in Fletcher to Andy Allen, Jr. and Ile Mae (Sheffield) Harred. He graduated from Fletcher High School in 1966 and Bacone College in 1968. He graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in 1970 with a Bachelor of Science Degree and received his Master of Education Degree in 1972. He also attended Kansas State University and the University of Oklahoma where he received his Education Administration Certificate. He married Brenda Kay Coffey on May 20, 1977 in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma. She died April 23, 2002. He coached, taught and was an administrator at Sentinel Public Schools in Sentinel, Oklahoma from 1972 to 1974, Seward County Community College in Liberal, Kansas from 1974 until to 1978 and at Elgin Public Schools from 1978 to 2001. He was an avid outdoorsman and loved to hunt and fish. He loved to play golf, baseball and slow pitch softball. He played on the state championship class B American Legion Baseball team at Fort Cobb, Oklahoma. Mr. Harred won two state championships while playing semi-pro baseball for the Lawton Pepsi's. In 1967 he was on the National Championship NJCAA Baseball Team at Bacone College. He was a two time all conference catcher while at Southwestern Oklahoma State University. Mr. Harred played professional baseball for two years with the Milwaukee Brewers Organization. He was a lifetime member of the Professional Baseball Players of America. He officiated basketball for twenty years and was inducted into the Southwest Officials Hall of Fame. He is survived by an uncle and aunt, B.E. and Pauline Harred, Torrance, California and numerous, cousins and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife, father, mother, grandparents, Andy A. Harred, Sr. and Elenona Jessicak "Jack" Howard, step grandfather, Leroy Howard, grandfather, Ode Sheffield, grandmother, Mable Gertrude Sheffield O'Neil, uncle, J.I. Sheffield and aunt, Ruth B. Memorial contributions may be made to the baseball teams at Southwestern Oklahoma State University, 100 Campus Drive, Weatherford, OK 73096 or Bacone College, 2299 Old Bacone Road, Muskogee, OK 74403. A special thank you to those that loved him, cared for him and were with him through the end.