Funeral services for Lester Lavern Rumley, 80 of Chickasha were held Monday, August 15, 2005, 10:00 am at the Springcreek Baptist Church at Cogar with Rev. Rodger Willis of the Springcreek Baptist Church officiating.
Lester LaVern Rumley was born October 23, 1925 at Cogar to Joseph Thomas and Marie (Pugh) Rumley and died Thursday, August 11, 2005 at his home in Chickasha.
Lester married Barbara Jean Gordon on July 2, 1947 at Anadarko. They moved to Verden in 1968, lived there 38 years upon moving to Chickasha. He served in the United States Navy as a Seaman First Class during WWII and worked as a roughneck in the oilfield most of his life. He was a member of the Springcreek Baptist Church.
He was preceded in death by his parents: Joseph and Marie Rumley; one son: Jerry Lynn Rumley; one son-in-law: Glenn Parret; two sisters: Bertha Kinsey and Mattie Smith; also two sets of twin brothers.
He is survived by his wife Barbara of the home in Chickasha; two daughters and son-in-law: Aline and Jimmie Don Woods of Union City and Gwen Parret of Yukon; four sons and two daughters-in-law: Larry and Shelly Rumley of Cogar, Terry and Anita Rumley of Cement, Richard Rumley of Verden, and Lloyd Rumley of Hartshorne, Oklahoma; 18 Grandchildren; 15 Great Grandchildren.
Burial in Springcreek Cemetery under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home of Minco.
