obituaries

lawton & snyder, ok Obituaries

Clarence Bott

Clarence Bott

May 23, 2008

Age 82, Lawton - Services will be 2:00 p.m. Tuesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Mr. Bott died Friday in Lawton. Burial will be in Flower Mound Cemetery. He was born November 21, 1925 in Lawton to Leo and Edith (Nickell) Bott. He played varsity football for Lawton High, and they won the State Championship in 1943. He...

Mary Hill

Mary Hill

May 21, 2008

Age 61, Lawton - Memorial Mass will be 10:00 AM Friday at Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church with Father Joseph R. Ross, pastor officiating. Mrs. Hill died Wednesday. Services are under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. The family will greet friends from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM Thursday at the funeral home. She was born August 13, 1946 in Carnegie...

Maudie Corrales

Maudie Corrales

May 20, 2008

Age 88, Lawton - Services will be 1:30 p.m. Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Dr. William F. Watkins, officiating. Mrs. Corrales died Tuesday in Lawton. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens. She was born June 23, 1919 in Blanket, Texas, to Harvey and Myrtle (Mallow) Allen. She moved to Lawton in 1937 and married Frank...

Frieda Wenkheimer

Frieda Wenkheimer

May 19, 2008

Age 79, Medicine Park - Services will be at 2:00 PM Friday at the Paradise Valley Baptist Church, North of Lawton, with Dr. Ken Overturf, Pastor, South Side Baptist Church, Fort Smith, Arkansas, officiating. Mrs. Wenkheimer died Monday in Dripping Springs, Texas. Burial will be in the Paradise Valley Cemetery under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. The family...

John Smitherman

John Smitherman

May 19, 2008

Age 88, Lawton - Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:30 AM Tuesday, May 27, 2008, in the Frontier Chapel Center, Fort Sill. Major Smitherman died Monday in a local care center. Burial with full military honors will be in the Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin, under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. He was born on September 29,...

Laura Davis

Laura Davis

May 18, 2008

Age 39, Elgin - Funeral services will be 1:30 PM Thursday at the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel, Lawton with Pastor Kenn Lane, Locust Grove Baptist Church, east of Lawton officiating. Mrs. Davis died Sunday. Burial will be in Highland Cemetery. She was born September 14, 1968 in Welch, West Virginia. Mrs. Davis graduated from Elgin High School in 1986...

Toy Mastey

Toy Mastey

May 18, 2008

Age 75, Lawton - No services are planned at this time. Mrs. Mastey died Sunday in a local care center. Arrangements are under the direction of the Becker Funeral Home. She was born on April 14, 1933 in Nagana, Japan. She married Robert Mastey in Tokyo, Japan in 1957. She was a beautician for more than 30 years. Survivors include...

Della Evers

Della Evers

May 15, 2008

Age 86, Lawton - Services will be 1:30 PM Saturday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Tom Willoughby, Associate Pastor, First Baptist Church, officiating. Mrs. Evers died Thursday in a local hospital. Burial will be at 3:30 PM in the Memory Lane Cemetery, Anadarko. She was born on December 28, 1921 in Cement, Oklahoma to Samuel Marvin...

John Younger

John Younger

May 14, 2008

Age 82, Lawton - Services will be 2:00 PM Friday, May 16, 2008 in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel. Sergeant Younger died Wednesday in a local hospital. Burial with full military honors will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. He was born on September 15, 1925 in Bowlegs, Oklahoma to John L. and Cora (Stewart) Younger. He grew...

Ruby Hurst

Ruby Hurst

May 11, 2008

Age 95, San Antonio, TX - Funeral services will be at 10:00 am Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. John Cramer, Retired United Methodist Minister, Lawton officiating. Mrs. Hurst died Sunday, May 11, 2008 in San Antonio, TX. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. *** The family will...

Ferne Hedgecock

Ferne Hedgecock

May 10, 2008

Age 82, Lawton - Services will be 1:30 PM Tuesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Bill Crow, Retired VA Chaplain, Muskogee, and Don Crow, Minister, Church of Christ, Walters, officiating. Mrs. Hedgecock died Saturday in a local hospital. Burial will be at 3:30 PM at the Fairlawn Cemetery, North of Chickasha. She was born on November 16,...

Phyllis Vanetten

Phyllis Vanetten

May 9, 2008

Age 60, Geronimo - Services will be 2:00 PM Tuesday in the First Baptist Church, Geronimo, with Steve Mallow, Pastor, Immanuel Baptist Church, Lawton, officiating. Mrs. Van Etten died Friday in Lawton. Burial will be in the Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 6:00 – 8:00 PM Monday at the...

Frances Mccune

Frances Mccune

May 8, 2008

Age 77, Lawton - Services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday in the Bethel Baptist Church with Dr. Forrest L. Keener and Pastor Dean Robinson, officiating. Mrs. McCune died Thursday in Marlow. Burial will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born May 24, 1930 in Bray, Oklahoma, to C.J. and Birdie Ward Morrison....

Rocky Young

Rocky Young

May 7, 2008

Age 46, Snyder - Graveside service will be at 2:00 pm Saturday at Fairlawn cemetery, Snyder with Elder Norman Jones, Snyder Primitive Baptist Church officiating. Mr. Young died Wednesday in a Lawton hospital. Inurnment will be under the direction of Becker Funeral Home of Snyder. He was born September 6, 1961 in Altus, Oklahoma to Charles Hardy and Georgia V....

Flossie Clark

Flossie Clark

May 6, 2008

Age 75, Cache - Funeral services will be 10:00 AM Friday in the Lighthouse Church of God with Delbert Hughes, Pastor, and J. Stephen Posey, Pastor, Indiahoma United Methodist Church, officiating. Mrs. Clark died Tuesday in Lawton. Burial will be in the Cache Cemetery under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. She was born January 31, 1933 in Hico, Texas...

Robert Purdum

Robert Purdum

May 6, 2008

Age 84, Lawton - Services will be 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Dr. Ralph Alexander, officiating. Sergeant Purdum died Tuesday, May 6, in Lawton. Burial with full military honors will be in the Post Cemetery, Fort Sill. He was born December 15, 1923 in Santa Ana, California, to Perry V. and Louella Purdum. He...

James Flowers

James Flowers

May 6, 2008

Age 72, Lawton - Funeral services will be at 12:30pm Friday in the Becker Funeral Home Memorial Chapel with Rev. Cliff Gravitt officiating. SFC Flowers died Tuesday morning at his home. Burial with full military honors will be in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin. The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Thursday from 6-8 pm. He was...

Herman Payne

Herman Payne

May 5, 2008

Age 82, Arrowhead Ranch Estate, Wichita Falls, Texas - Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church, Geronimo, with Kelly Russell and Steve Mallow, officiating. Mr. Payne died Monday in Wichita Falls. Burial with Navy honors will be in Sunset Memorial Gardens under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. He was born September 11, 1925 in...

Doreen Smith

Doreen Smith

May 5, 2008

Age 60, Cement - Memorial service will be at 2:00 pm Friday in the Becker Funeral Home of Fletcher Chapel with Rev. Raymond McPherson, Pastor of Life Journey Church, Cement officiating. Doreen died Monday in a Chickasha hospital. Arrangements are under the direction of Becker Funeral Home of Fletcher (Formerly Robbins Funeral Home). She was born August 5, 1947 in...

David Harrison

David Harrison

Apr 30, 2008

Age 46, Enid - Funeral services will be 11:30 AM Tuesday at Freedom Christian Fellowship, Lawton with Pastor Nick Lovenburg officiating. Mr. Harrison died Wednesday in Enid. Burial with military honors will be in Fort Sill National Cemetery, Elgin under the direction of Becker Funeral Home. He was born August 12, 1961 in Fort Riley, Kansas to Edward and Haruko...