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Arthur Ledrue Coburn
Apr 30, 1924 - May 14, 2010
Posted by: Jo Aguirre
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Photo by Linda Cardenas
Greer Funeral Home
Granite, Oklahoma
Arthur L. Coburn, age 86, of Granite, passed away Friday
morning, May 14, 2010, at Jackson County Memorial Hospital.
Mr. Coburn was born on April 30, 1924, to John R. and Garnet Lucille (Hughey)
Coburn, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. After graduation, from Bristol High
School, in 1942, he was immediately drafted into the United States Army Corps of
Engineers. Upon discharge, he began a career with Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Industry that eventually took him to Wichita Falls, Texas in 1974. It was there
that he met Barbara Deas and they were married on March 9, 1979 and they spent
the next thirty-one wonderful years together. In the summer of 1982, he moved to
Granite where he lived until his death. Arthur worked for a time at Altus Air
Force Base, but every opportunity he had, he spent it in playing golf. Arthur
was a member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry of Clarksburg, West Virginia, a
lifelong member of the VFW, a lifelong member of Amvets, a member of the
American Legion and a 32nd degree member of the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry
where he held several offices in the Granite Lodge and was a current member of
Altus Lodge 62.
Preceded in death by his parents, one brother, as an infant and a step son,
Steve Miller, he is survived by his wife, Barbara Coburn, of the home; four
children, Margaret “Peggy” Lynn Henry of Granite; Johnny Miller and wife Lisa of
Ft. Worth, Texas; Ruth Watanabe of Oklahoma City and David Deas and wife Salah
of Granite; nine grandchildren, Leonard Ronnie Bell, Jr., Mark Miller, Johnny
Miller, David Miller, Sandra Watanabe, Hannah Deas, James Arthur Deas, Jessica
Edwards and Michelle Rudd; seven great grandchildren along with many other
relatives and friends.
Funeral services for Arthur Coburn will be held at 2 p.m., Monday, May 17, 2010,
at the Granite First Baptist Church with Rev. Ben Van Vacter and Rev. Arol
Steverson officiating. Interment will follow at Granite City Cemetery under the
direction of Greer Funeral Home of Granite.
Online tributes may be made to the family at
www.GreerFuneral.com
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