Gary Ekberg

© Enid News and Eagle

01-12-2008

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Funeral services for Gary Ekberg, 55, will be 10 a.m. today at St. Matthews Episcopal Church. The Rev. Stephen R. Samples will officiate. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cemetery. Arrange-ments are under the direction of Henninger-Allen Funeral Home.

Gary was born March 4, 1952, in Lawton to Lester G. and Ruby Benton Ekberg and passed away on Tuesday, Jan. 8, 2008, at Kansas University Medical Center, Kansas City, KS.

Gary graduated from Putnam City High School and attended the University of Oklahoma. During the Vietnam War he was a radio man in the Coast Guard on the USCGC Sherman. Upon his return he worked for Mike Reed Construction in Oklahoma City. On Oct. 15, 1986, he married Tricia Price in Estes Park, CO. The couple made homes in Yukon, Artesia, N.M. and moved to Enid in 1998. In 2002 they moved near Pond Creek where he worked for F.W. Zaloudek Company at Kremlin. Gary attended St. Matthews Episcopal Church.

He is survived by his wife Tricia Ekberg, of the home; one son, Sean Ekberg and his wife, Nicole, of Enid; his sister, Linda Stark, of Yukon; four sisters-in-law, Debbie Faulk, of Enid, Marsha Emiston and her husband, Joe Max, of Mertzon, Texas, Renee Stein, of Fort Collins, CO, Gina Holmes and her husband Mark, of Wakita and numerous nieces and nephews.

Gary was preceded in death by his parents.

Memorials may be made to SPCA with Henninger-Allen Funeral Home acting as custodians for the fund.

Condolences may be made at www.enidwecare.com.

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