Funeral service for SFC (Retired) Leonard Turpin, Jr., will be at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 7, 2019 in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Kiyoung Jeong, Pastor of the New Light United Methodist Church, Lawton officiating.

Burial with full military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, Oklahoma.

Leonard Turpin, Jr., 74, Lawton passed away Tuesday, July 30, 2019 at his home in Lawton.  He was born February 3, 1944 in Paris, Kentucky to the late Rev. Leonard Turpin and Sarah Ethel (Adair) Turpin.  He served in the United States Army during Vietnam and retired at Fort Sill in 1986.  He then went to work in Civil Service at Fort Sill, where he spent 22 years in the Public Works Division.  He married Okkum Yun in Waco, Texas in 1972.  She passed away October 6, 2012.

He is survived by his daughter Carol Ann Turpin, her husband Josh Young, and daughter Isabella Zoey Young of Phoenix, Arizona, his siblings, Jo Ann Black, Rose Kenny, Vernetta and Willie Dale, Sr., and Henry Turpin.  He is also survived by a host of other family members and longtime friends.

Leonard is preceded in death by his parents, 2 brothers, George Earl Turpin, James R. Turpin and sisters, Carolyn M. Kraft, Tillie B. Porter and Lennie Lorene Hill.