Funeral for former Lawton resident SFC (Retired) Arlis D. Henderson will be 2:00 P.M. Friday, January 12, 2018 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Clay Hicks, senior pastor at Erin Springs Baptist Church in Lindsay, Oklahoma officiating.

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

SFC (Retired) Arlis D. Henderson, age 84 of Edmond, passed away peacefully at his home on Monday, January 8, 2018.  He was born November 29, 1933 in Anadarko, Oklahoma to James Wesley Henderson and Dora Allison.  He joined the U.S. Army in 1953 and retired September 1, 1973.  He served in Korea and Vietnam.  After his retirement he worked at International Paper Company and the Lawton Public School System.

He was a member of the American Legion Post 111 in Edmond, Oklahoma.  He had a Country Western Band and played at the American Legion in Lawton, Oklahoma for over twenty years.  He also played in and around the local area.

He is survived by his wife of thirty-nine years, Myrtle (Grooms) Henderson, three daughters and their spouses, Shirley and Tom Barth, Winters, California, Gale and Clay Hicks, Lindsay, Oklahoma and Paula and Rick Harrison, Duncan, Oklahoma, two sons, Richard Henderson, Portland, Oregon and Michael Henderson, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, two step sons, Tom McKee, Edmond, Oklahoma and Tim McKee and his wife, Crystal, Moore, Oklahoma, sixteen grandchildren, ten great grandchildren, brothers, Raymond Henderson, Iowa Park, Texas and Paul Henderson and his wife, Peggy, Alabama, sisters, Wilda Turner, Carthage, Texas and June Dippe and her husband, Tom, Lindale, Texas and a very special sister-in-law, Hazel Davidson.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his ex-wife, Patricia Henderson, three sisters, Lavada Parks, Mable Davis and Jane Harris, two brothers, Melvin and John Wesley Henderson and a daughter, Lorraine Henderson.