Graveside service for SSG (Retired) Walter Lewis, Jr., 81, Lawton will be at 11:00 AM Friday, March 15, 2013 at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin with Chaplain (CPT) Tonya Binbernagel officiating. Sergeant Lewis died Tuesday, March 5, 2013 in Lawton. Inurnment with full military honors will be under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. He was born May 1, 1931 in Chattanooga, Tennessee to Walter, Sr and Rosa Lee Lewis. He was a veteran of the Vietnam War and received the following awards and decorations; National Defense Service Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal with Sixth Award, Expert Qualification Badge Rifle M-14, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross Unit Citation with Palm, Two Overseas Service Bars, Army Commendation Medal and the Vietnam Service Medal. Sergeant Lewis retired from the Army on October 31, 1976. He also retired from Civil Service. Survivors include two daughters, Tanya Lewis, Atlanta, Georgia and Marilyn Johnson, Waynesboro, Virginia, a son, Thad Lewis, Chattanooga, Tennessee, five step children, Kimberly Lipscomb, Lawton, Gregory Lipscomb and his wife Sharon, Lawton, Karen Lipscomb, Dallas, Texas, Marsha Harbor, Virginia and Phillis Wraggs, Dallas, Texas, six grandchildren, nineteen step grandchildren and twenty two step great grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife and a step daughter, Cynthia Hill.