LaVern E. Sears
Jun 7, 1921 - Oct 28, 2001

Sears was born June 7, 1921, in Perry, Okla., to Fred and Myrtle (Garner) Sears.

He attended school at Perry, then moved to Shawnee where he graduated Shawnee High School. He attended business school in Tulsa.

Sears served in the U.S. Navy from Aug. 26, 1942, to January 1946, serving in the Guadalcanal Island of Emerau, the Bismark Sea and Okinawa.

He worked at Knight Furniture in Oklahoma City and later bought into the company. In 1973, he returned to Shawnee and worked for Bison Lumber Co.

He later worked for Shawnee Travel. He was a member of First Christian Church.

He was preceded in death by his parents, four brothers and a sister.
Survivors include his sister-in-law, Verma Sears, Tecumseh; and nephew and his wife, Marvene and Sue Sears, Tecumseh.

Services will be noon Thursday at Roesch-Walker Funeral Chapel with the Rev. Bill Shaw officiating. Burial will be 3 p.m. in Grace Hill Cemetery,  Perry. Memorials may be made to the First Christian Church building fund.

Shawnee News Star
published October 31, 2001
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