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Ray Timmons

Jun 17, 1945 — Sep 21, 2009

Obituary

Age 64, Lawton - Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Sergeant Timmons died September 21 in Kuwait. Burial with full military honors will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. He was born June 17, 1945 in Keota, Oklahoma, to Willard and Vesta (McSpirit) Timmons. He attended school in Tamaha and was a 1964 graduate of Stigler High School. He married Angie Bahmann on November 17, 1966 at Tamaha. Following graduation he enlisted in the U.S. Army at Fort Polk, Louisiana. He served in Germany, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, one tour of duty in Vietnam, Korea, Fort Dix, New Jersey, Fort Jackson, South Carolina, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and retired at Fort Sill in 1986. His awards include one overseas service bar, four overseas service ribbons, the Army Service Ribbon, the Army Good Conduct Medal, the National Defense Service Medal, the Army Commendation Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with four Bronze Service Stars, the Vietnam Campaign Medal, the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Palm, Driver and Mechanic Badge, Expert Rifle M-16, Army Achievement Medal, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm, and the Noncommissioned Officer Professional Development Ribbon. After his retirement from the Army he worked for Guardsmark Security at the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Plant, for General Dynamics in Kuwait and at the time of his death was employed with CSA Ltd. in Kuwait. He is survived by his wife, of the home; four sons and daughters in law, Willy and Kay Timmons, Killeen, Texas, Ray and Myra Timmons, Mike Timmons and Frank Timmons, all of Lawton; a daughter, Christine Timmons, Munich, Germany; nine grandchildren, Shawn, Christopher, Charlene, Shan, Kayla, Asia, Brendan, Breanna and Ashlee; a great grandson, Samuel; two brothers and a sister in law, Roy Timmons, Tamaha, Oklahoma, and Willard and Lucille Timmons, Jr., Stigler, Oklahoma; four sisters and brothers in law, Maxine Guinn, Tamaha, Rose and Wayne Starr, Wagoner, Oklahoma, Jean and Pokey Davis, Keota, Oklahoma, and Beatrice and Kurt Bolinger, Muskogee, Oklahoma. An infant sister, Odamae, his parents, maternal and paternal grandparents, and two brothers in law, Charley Apple and Clomer Guinn, preceded him in death. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas TX 75231.

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