Funeral Mass for SFC (Retired) William T. Maske, 79, Lawton will be at 9:30 am Thursday, October 15, 2015 in the Grierson Hill Chapel, Fort Sill, OK with Chaplain (MAJ) James E. O'Neal officiating. Sergeant Maske passed away Monday, October 12, 2015 in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, OK under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. Visitation will be Wednesday at the funeral home from 9am until 6:30pm. A Rosary service will be held at 6:30pm in the funeral home chapel. He was born February 5, 1936 in Rosedale, OK to William C. and Edna (Morris) Maske. He married Eleonore Elisabeth Suess Maske on July 27, 1966 in Nurenberg, Germany. He retired from the US Army in 1983 after 27 years of service. Sergeant Maske served in Vietnam, and earned the Bronze Star Medal, Vietnam Service Medal with 4 stars, Army Commendation Medal with second Oak Leaf Cluster and the Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal. He was a Life Member of the Vietnam Veterans Association, The Pershing Missle Association, The NCO Association, he was 4th degree Knight with the Knights of Columbus where he was very active, was an usher at Grierson Hill Chapel and was a volunteer for the American Red Cross. He is survived by his wife Eleonore E. Suess Maske, his two sons Peter and wife Cynthia (Snyder) Maske of Illinois, and grandchildren Steven and wife Alicia (Liguori) Maske of New Hampshire, Angela (Maske) Wyman and husband Tony of Massachusetts, David Maske of Illinois, Michael Maske of Illinois, son Robert and wife Valarie (Benedict) Maske of Pennsylvania and grandchildren Sheena Smith of Iowa, Brian Conatser and great grandson Joseph Conatser both of Texas. He is also survived by several nieces and nephews, Alfreda Joice Yelms of Longdale, OK, Loretta Kay Kluckner and husband Alva and their family of Custer City, OK, Judy Darleen Horseman and family of Longdale, OK, Terry Lynn Vowell and husband Mitchell and their family of Canton, OK, Jackie Sue Cheney and family of Longdale, OK, Tracy Wilder and family of Longdale, OK, and his relatives in Germany, sister-in-law Doris Suess, nephews Georg Suess and Christof Suess and a niece Claudia Suess, all of Munich, Germany. He was preceded in death by his parents, a grandson Brian Maske and nephew Alford Russel Wilder, father and mother-in-law Josef, Sr and and Maria Holz-Suess of Straubing, Germany, brother-in-law Josef Suess, Jr. of Munich, Germany, sister-in-law Ursula Holz of Rosenheim, Germany.