Funeral for Wayne A. Martin, 79, Lawton, will be 10:00 a.m. Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Gene Escoe officiating. Mr. Martin died Saturday in Lawton. Burial will be at 2:00 p.m. Friday in the Martha Cemetery, Martha, Oklahoma, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home & Cremation Service. Mr. Martin was born June 22, 1931 in the Horse Head Community in Greer County, Oklahoma, to Gilbert Ulysses and Emma (Wheeler) Martin. He graduated from Mangum High School in 1950 and attended Cameron Junior College in Lawton on a basketball scholarship. He was drafted in the U.S. Army in 1952 and served two years. He then studied electrical engineering in Chicago, Illinois. He worked for numerous electrical contractors in Oklahoma, Kansas and Texas before settling in Lawton in 1963. He was employed by John Lewis Electrical Company and was instrumental in wiring many of the structures at Fort Sill and in Lawton until his retirement. He married Barbara Francis Yeager in Mangum, Oklahoma on March 18, 1954. They were married twenty five years. He was a member of Trinity Baptist Church and the Electrical Union. He is survived by a daughter, Patricia Ann Martin, Broken Arrow, Oklahoma; a son, Larry Wayne Martin, Lawton; two grandchildren, Creighton Douglas Piper and Ryan David Piper; a niece, Cheryl "Skeeter" Moore; a cousin and his wife, Fred and Norma Martin; a nephew, Steve Martin. He was preceded in death by an infant daughter, his parents, a sister, Juanita Maxwell and her husband, brothers, Jack and Claude Martin and sisters in law, Jennie and Carron Martin.