Memorial service for Vernon "V.W." Harwell, 38, Carnegie, will be 1:30 p.m. Tuesday in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Ken Baden officiating. Mr. Harwell died Saturday, August 10, in Carnegie. He was born November 26, 1974 in Sacramento, California. He grew up in Lawton and attended John Adams and Brockland Elementary Schools as well as Tomlinson and Central Junior High Schools. He moved to Carnegie at a young age and obtained his GED and later attended Caddo-Kiowa Technical Center where he studied to be a security guard. He had worked as a security guard and also worked at the Carnegie Cotton Gin. He had attended the Assembly of God Church and the LOFT in Carnegie. He is survived by his mother and her husband, Kay and Ed Clevenger, Lawton; his father and his wife, Dr. Phil and Jane Harwell, Orange, Texas; two sisters, Lara Harwell, Oklahoma City, and Anna Winn and her husband Chad, Mustang, Oklahoma; a niece, Lydia Ruth Winn; a nephew, Nathanael Wayne Winn; paternal grandmother, Hoberta Harwell; a special friend, Cindy Kidd, Carnegie. Memorial contributions may be made to TEEM (The Education and Employment Ministry), 14 NE 13th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73104.