obituaries

lawton & snyder, ok Obituaries

Gertrude "Trudy" Lowe

Gertrude "Trudy" Lowe

Jul 8, 2009

Age 71, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Monday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Tim Evans, Pastor, Dayspring Community Church, officiating. Mrs. Lowe died Wednesday at her residence following a long battle with mesothelioma. Burial will be in Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. She was born April 29, 1938 at Impfingen, Germany to Leo and Katharina...

Song Pok Moore

Song Pok Moore

Jul 5, 2009

Age 54, Lawton. Mrs. Moore died Sunday at her residence. Arrangements are under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born November 2, 1954 in Che Ju-do Island, South Korea. She grew up in South Korea and married US Air Force Master Sergeant Wildfredo G. "Fred" Moore on March 16, 1988 in Denver, Colorado. She had worked as...

Russell Lewis Hale

Russell Lewis Hale

Jul 4, 2009

Age 48 - Services will be 10:00 a.m. Wednesday in the Fletcher Christian Church, with Jim Hall, Minister, officiating. Mr. Hale died Saturday. Burial will be in the Sterling Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home of Fletcher (Formerly Robbins Funeral Home). He was born August 21, 1960 in Lawton to Billy James and Nancy (Hanks) Hale. He attended...

Sfc (Retired) Juan M. Vela

Sfc (Retired) Juan M. Vela

Jul 4, 2009

Age 90, Lawton - Funeral services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Joseph R. Ross, officiating. Sergeant Vela died Saturday in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. Sergeant Vela was born June 23, 1919 in Victoria, Texas. He married Josephine Flores on December 16,...

Glorianne Schur Neher

Glorianne Schur Neher

Jul 4, 2009

Age 77, Lawton - Inurnment services will be held at a later date at Highland Cemetery in Minneapolis, Kansas under the direction of Wilson-Shields Funeral Home. Mrs. Neher died Saturday, July 4, 2009 at her home. Local arrangements are under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. Glorianne was born to Charles Francis and Hazel F. Schur in Minneapolis, Kansas on...

Jinnie Mieko Yoshimura Gonzales

Jinnie Mieko Yoshimura Gonzales

Jul 4, 2009

Age 73, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Thursday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Dong Yun Toso, officiating. Mrs. Gonzales died Saturday at her residence. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. Mrs. Gonzales was born December 20, 1935 in Shimada, Kanbe, Shimo-Gun, Hyogo-Ken, Japan, to Taicho and Kimie Yoshimura. She grew up in Japan, graduated...

Alicia "Alice" Mendoza

Alicia "Alice" Mendoza

Jul 2, 2009

Age 78, Lawton - Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with John Wallace and Rev. Eli Betancourt, officiating. Mrs. Mendoza died Thursday, July 2, in Lawton. Burial will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. She was born October 3, 1930 in Guatemala City, Guatemala, to Julian and Matilde Hernandez Mendoza. She...

Freda E. Mcdaniel

Freda E. Mcdaniel

Jul 2, 2009

Age 86, Lawton - Services will be at 2:30 PM Sunday at Liberty Heights Christian Church with Rev. Chuck Pettigrew, pastor officiating. Mrs. McDaniel died Thursday in Lawton. Inurnment will be at a later date at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born November 17, 1922 in Seminole to Grover C. and...

Frank D. Muse

Frank D. Muse

Jul 2, 2009

Age 76, Cache - Funeral services will be 9:30 AM Wednesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Jennifer Long, officiating. Mr. Muse died Thursday in Snyder. Burial with Navy Honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin. He was born February 28, 1933 in Northern Comanche County to Fred and Eula (Lawson) Muse. He married Suzie...

Sfc (Retired) Neal D. Walters

Sfc (Retired) Neal D. Walters

Jul 1, 2009

Age 83, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:00 AM Tuesday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Sgt. Walters died Wednesday in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be in Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. He was born August 18, 1925 in Leechburg, Pennsylvania to Oliver D. and Hetty Ellen (Barr) Walters. He married Lotte E. Taplick on March...

Lucille M. "Lucy" Davis

Lucille M. "Lucy" Davis

Jul 1, 2009

Age 89, Lawton -Funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Monday in the Chapel of Peace Mausoleum at Sunset Memorial Gardens with Dr. William F. Watkins, officiating. Mrs. Davis died Wednesday in Norman. Burial will be under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born July 13, 1919 in Ninnekah, Oklahoma. She grew up in Chickasha and in 1936...

Betty Jean Mills

Betty Jean Mills

Jun 30, 2009

Age 77, Lawton - Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. Monday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Al Christian, officiating. Mrs. Mills died Tuesday in Lawton. Burial will be in the Niles Cemetery, east of Hinton, Oklahoma. She was born September 11, 1931 in Oklahoma City to Charles August and Clara Ann (Daily) Zwirtz. She grew up...

Eleanor Geraldine (Horne) Lance

Eleanor Geraldine (Horne) Lance

Jun 30, 2009

Age 83, Snyder - Funeral services will be at 10:00am Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Chapel, Snyder with Rev. Jeff Flowers, pastor of the First Baptist Church Snyder officiating. Mrs. Lance died Tuesday in Oklahoma City. Burial will be in Fairlawn Cemetery, Snyder. *** Family will greet friends Thursday evening at the funeral home from 6pm until 8pm ***...

Vivian G. Waller

Vivian G. Waller

Jun 27, 2009

Vivian Garnette (Wilcoxson) Waller was born in Stratford, Indian Territory on March 2, 1906 and died in Lawton on June 27, 2009. At a time when it was very unusual for girls, she was an outstanding athlete. With her partner, Dorothy Blanchard, she won the 1923 Oklahoma High School Girls Doubles Tennis Championship for Purcell High School. In order to...

Msg (Retired) Clifton N. Henderson

Msg (Retired) Clifton N. Henderson

Jun 26, 2009

Funeral services will be 12:00 pm Tuesday in the First Presbyterian Church with Chaplain (CPT) Scott Nichols and Rev. Bobbie McGerry, Pastor, officiating. Clifton N. Henderson died peacefully Friday, June 26, 2009 at the age of 89. Burial will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. He was born on April...

Charlotte C. Gritis

Charlotte C. Gritis

Jun 26, 2009

Word has been received of the death of Charlotte C. Gritis, 88, Lawton. Mrs. Gritis died Friday. Arrangements are under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born March 12, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois to Charles and Minnie (Gehring) Preiffer. She married Walter Alex Gritis on August 24, 1946 in Chicago. He died November 14, 2005. Mrs. Gritis managed...

Christina Dawn Coady

Christina Dawn Coady

Jun 26, 2009

Age 23, Lawton - Funeral services will be at 10:00am Wednesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Gary D. Haynes, Mounds, Oklahoma officiating. Christina died Friday in an Oklahoma City hospital. Burial will be in Pecan Cemetery, Southwest of Lawton. *** Family will greet friends Tuesday evening from 6pm until 8pm at the funeral home. *** She...

Sfc (Retired) Harold O. Lamle

Sfc (Retired) Harold O. Lamle

Jun 23, 2009

Age 71, Lawton - Services will be 1:00 PM Monday at St. John Lutheran Church with Vicar Andrew Yeager and Vicar Peter Gueldner officiating. Sgt Lamle died Tuesday in Corinth, Texas. Burial with full military honors will be at Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. He was born December 13, 1937 in Okeene to...

Clara D. Potts

Clara D. Potts

Jun 22, 2009

Age 77, Lawton - Graveside service will be 10:00 AM Wednesday at Sunset Memorial Gardens with Rev. Leon Brown, assistant pastor of Victory Faith Center in Choctaw officiating. Miss Potts died Monday in Duncan. Burial will be under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born February 28, 1932 in Faxon to Claude H. and Belle Demona (Killian) Potts....

Leta Dorsey

Leta Dorsey

Jun 19, 2009

Age 54, Cement - Memorial service will be 10:00 AM Tuesday in the Life Journey Church, Cement, with Raymond McPherson, Pastor, officiating. Mrs. Dorsey died Friday at her home. Arrangements are under the direction of Becker Cement Chapel (Formerly Robbins Funeral Home). She was born on October 30, 1954 in Lawton to Lloyd and Pauline (Jenkins) Edwards. She married James...