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© The Chickasha Express-Star Chickasha, Oklahoma Tuesday, August 29, 2006 February 21, 1928 ~ August 27, 2006 Services for Jack Dewayne "Lightning" Wakefield, 78, of Minco will be held Wednesday, August 30, 2006, at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Minco. Burial and military honors will be at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco. Rev Steve Shellhammer of the Minco First Baptist Church will officiate. Dewayne "Lightning" Wakefield was born February 21, 1928 SW of Minco in the Burr Oak community to Fred A. "Fritz" and Bessie [Dobbs] Wakefield. He died Sunday, August 27, 2006 at the Veterans Medical Center in Norman. Services are under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home. © The Tuttle Times Tuttle, Oklahoma August 31, 2006 February 21, 1928 ~ August 27, 2006 Services for Jack Dewayne "Lightning" Wakefield, 78 of Minco were held Wednesday, August 30, 2006, 2 pm at the First Baptist Church of Minco with Rev. Steve Shellhammer of the Minco First Baptist Church officiating. Burial and military honors were at the Evergreen Cemetery in Minco under the direction of Huber-Reynolds Funeral Home of Minco. Jack Dewayne "Lightning" Wakefield was born February 21, 1928 southwest of Minco in the Burr Oak community to Fred A. "Fritz" and Bessie (Dobbs) Wakefield and died Sunday, August 27, 2006 at the Veterans Medical Center in Norman. He attended the Burr Oak and Minco schools. He was a member of the Hazel Dell Baptist Church NW of Minco and was baptized on September 13, 1945 in Salyers Lake, NW of Minco. He was raised in the Minco area, moved to El Reno at a later age, and had lived back in Minco the last 22 years. Jack served in the United States Army during WWII in the Japan occupation as a Tech 5. He was a member of the El Reno VFW Post 382 and the El Reno American Legion Post 34. He had worked as a carpenter and retired from the Rock Island Railroad. He was preceded in death by: Parents: Fritz and Bessie Wakefield; one brother: Arthur Fred Wakefield; an infant daughter: Karrie Lou Wakefield on December 24, 1955 and a brother-in-law: Buford Hines. He is survived by: two sons and spouses: Joel and Carol Wakefield of Chandler, Brad and Charlotte Wakefield of El Reno; two sisters and brother-in-law: LaVerne Hines of Minco, Virginia and Roy Hayes of Minco; five grandchildren: Joey and Sherry Wakefield of Chandler, Brandi and Michael Murray of Chandler, Brooke and David Pruett of Yukon, Matt Wakefield of Weatherford and Stacy Wakefield of Oklahoma City; five great grandchildren: Braydon Murray of Chandler, Tyler Wakefield, Hunter Treaster and Treyton Ahernd all of Chandler, Tyler Pruett of Yukon. |
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