Funeral service for Sergeant Major (Retired) Dewey L. Scoggins will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, 2017 in Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dean Thompson officiating.

Burial with full military honors will follow in Sunset Memorial Gardens.

The family will greet friends from 5-7 pm Tuesday at the funeral home.

Sergeant Major (Retired) Dewey L. Scoggins, age 89, Lawton, died Friday, May 12, 2017 in Lawton.  He was born July 21, 1927 in Keota, Oklahoma.  He entered the U.S. Army in September 1946.  He married Marlyce I. Hansen on August 2, 1947 in Monterey, California.  She preceded him in death on September 27, 2010.

He retired from the Army on April 1, 1967 after more than twenty years of service.  While in the service he served overseas in Japan, Germany and Korea.  He graduated from the Seventh Army NCO Academy in Germany in 1958 as the Distinguished Graduate.  During his service he was awarded the Army Commendation Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, the National Defense Service Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, Good Conduct Medal (7th award) and the Army of Occupation Medal (Japan).

Dewey owned and operated his own real estate business in Lawton for many years.  He was very active in the real estate profession, having held most offices in the local board of realtors including Vice President and President in 1974.  He also served a number of years as a state director for the Oklahoma Association of Realtors and served one year as OAR Regional Vice President for the southwest region.  He was selected Realtor of the Year for the Lawton Board of Realtors in 1975.

Survivors include his daughter, Pamela Bonnell-Mihalis, Lawton; two sons, Robert Wayne Scoggins, Faxon, and Ronald Dean Scoggins and wife Nancy, Boerne, Texas; two grandchildren, Verneil Samuel Henderson, III and wife Rachel and Brooke Amber Scoggins; a great grandson, Zachary Verneil Henderson; and two brothers, Arnold Scoggins, Fort Worth, Texas, and David Scoggins, Oklahoma City.

He was preceded in death by his parents and a brother, W.T. "Doug" Scoggins.