Graveside service for SFC (Retired) Francisco O. Gomez, Jr. 82, Lawton will be at 2:00 PM Tuesday at Post Cemetery, Fort Sill with Chaplain (CPT) Bryan Wright officiating. Sgt Gomez died Wednesday, September 25, 2013 in Lawton. Burial with full military honors and Masonic Rites with be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. He was born December 3, 1930 in Madera, California. He married Mildred Dell Stamper on February 3, 1963 in Lawton. She died November 26, 1985. He married Carolyn L. Norman on January 23, 1987 in Lawton. Sgt Gomez served in the U.S. Army for 24 years. He served in Germany, Korea, Thailand, Vietnam and a host of other assignments. His awards include the National Defense Service Medal, Army Occupation Medal Germany, National Defense Service Medal with 1st Oak Leaf Cluster, Vietnam Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, two Overseas Service Bars, Good Conduct Medal 4th Award and the Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with Palm. He retired at Fort Sill. Following his retirement he worked as a bus driver and dispatcher at the Post Motor Pool for twenty years. He was a member of Mount Scott Masonic Lodge #540 and was a Shriner. He was also a member of Cameron Baptist Church. Survivors include his wife, of the home, three step daughters, Angie Norman, Leesville, Louisiana, Shirley Ann Maranto and her husband Ken, Westminster, Maryland and Georgianna Charlene Lehnbeuter, Baltimore, Maryland, sister-in-law, Frankie Mathis and her husband Matt, Lawton, brother-in-law, David Stamper, Indiahoma, two step grandchildren, Shaun Simpson and Dorina Norman and many friends and other family members. The family will greet friends from 6:00 PM until 7:30 PM Monday at the funeral home.