Funeral service for Velma J. Shook will be 12:30 pm Tuesday, December 27, 2016 in University Church of Christ with Eric Sharum, Minister officiating.

Burial will follow in Fort Sill National Cemetery under direction of Becker Rabon Funeral Home.

Velma J. Shook, age 82, Lawton, passed from this life on December 21, 2016 at her home.  Mrs. Shook was born to Fred and Gladys McCathern on February 9, 1934 in the Spring Creek Community northeast of Gracemont, Oklahoma.  She was born into a family of seven siblings.  As a child she worked on the farm with her family, graduating from Binger High School in 1950.  Thereafter, she moved to Lawton in 1950 to pursue a career working at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company.  She retired on May 14, 1987 after 27 years of service.  Following her retirement she worked at First Commercial bank from 1989-1995 and for seven years served as a volunteer with Comanche County Memorial Hospital.

She married Bobby J. Shook on June 28, 1952 in Anadarko.  He preceded her in death on March 2, 2009.  They had three children and made their home in Lawton and the Central High community.  Velma became a Christian in 1958 while attending the Church of Christ in Binger and later became a lifelong member of University Church of Christ in Lawton.  She enjoyed arts and crafts as well as refurbishing antique trunks but most of all she enjoyed her family and friends.  She was also a life member of the Telephone Pioneers.

Velma is survived by her three children, Terri Belflower and husband Charles and CaSandra Sharum and husband Eric, all of Lawton and Danny Shook, Cache; eight grandchildren, Derek, Nathan and wife Michelle, Taryn, Jarrett, Caleb, Joshua, Gina and husband Roman and Christy; 11 great grandchildren, Kaiden, Mikayla, Grace, Jonah, Brittani, Braden, Jaycee, Jayden, Brennan, Braylee and John; two great great grandchildren, Nataleigh and Riot; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Floyd and Myrtle McCathern, Yukon, Oklahoma and Freddy and Patsy McCathern, Gracemont, Oklahoma; a sister, Violet Repp, Lawton; four sisters-in-law, Helen and Mary McCathern, both of Anadarko, Kathleen Brown, Hydro, Oklahoma and Frieda Cox, Midwest City, Oklahoma; brother-in-law, James Shook, Gracemont, Oklahoma; and many other relatives and friends.

Her parents, her in-laws, Herman and Syble Shook, two brothers, Glen and Marvin McCathern, her sister and brother-in-law, Faye and Leon Griffitts, and her sister-in-law, Janice Williams, preceded her in death.

Memorial contributions may be made to In Search of the Lords Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond OK 73083 or www.searchtv.org or to the Tipton Children's Home, P.O. Box 370, Tipton OK 73570.