Cheyenne Star, August 21, 2014

Hubert Leon Loch, 81, of Elk City, OK was born on May 18, 1933 in Kirksville, Missouri. He is the son of Ora and Mary Ellen (Scott) Loch. Hubert passed away on Saturday, August 16, 2014 at the VA Center in Clinton, OK.

When Hubert was five and his sister, Anna Mae was three their mother Ellen passed away. Later their dad, Ora married Velma Marie Loch. Velma had a daughter, Darlene, who was nine. The family continued to live in Kirksville where Hubert graduated from Kirksville High School Class of 1952.

After graduation he joined the United States Air Force and served his country for thirty years traveling the world and serving in Vietnam, Korea and French Morocco plus flew artillery into Israel in the Six Day War, retiring in 1982 at Altus Air Force Base in Altus, OK. Hubert was a true military man airman serving God and his country. He continued to live in Altus and work in finance at the Altus Air Force Base.

In 1953 he met and married Alma Marie Sanders in Wichita Falls, while stationed there. To this union was born a son, Edward Leon Loch and a daughter LaDonna Marie. He then married Mary and had two step-children, daughter, Paulette Benson and son, Joel Mitchell who he claimed as his very own. In March of 1995 he met the love of this life, Lois Ann Wetz and they were married October 9, 1999 and made their home in Elk City, OK. Lois had five children. They were truly an extended family, the love for each other's family flowed between Lois and Hubert. The twenty years they spent together were the happiest for both Lois and Hubert.

He once said "How can anyone fly over the earth, look down and not believe in God?" Hubert has gone home and it leaves us so sad but we know one day we will see him again, Heaven is having a great rejoicing today because our precious loved one has come home.

We will miss him so, but no more pain and no more tears.

Funeral Services will be held at 10:00 a.m., Wednesday, August 20, 2014 at the Martin-Dugger Funeral Home Chapel in Elk City, OK. Chris Gordon will officiate assisted by Rusty McMullen and Brother Larry Parvin.

Interment will be at Fairlawn Cemetery in Elk City, OK. Services are under the direction of Martin-Dugger Funeral Home in Elk City, OK.

Memorials can be made to the Meals on Wheels in care of Martin-Dugger Funeral Home, 600 West Country Club, Elk City, OK 73644.

Hubert is survived by his loving wife, Lois of the home, his children: Larry Parvin and wife, Judy of Canistota, South Dakota, Vicki Clark of Hammon, OK, Wanell Hines and her husband Danny of Hammon, OK, Laurie Parker and her husband, Jess of Dill City, OK, Paulette Benson and her husband, Butch of Wichita Falls, Texas, Lesly Parvin and his wife, Sandi of Pittsburg, Texas; grandchildren: Ladonna Evans and her husband, Spencer of Powhata, Virginia, Erin Harvison and her husband, Todd of York, Pennsylvania, Conor and Edward Loch of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and a special daughter, Fran Loch of York, Pennsylvania; great-granddaughters, Delany Jean Harvison and Kathryn Evans; many, many loving grandchildren and great grandchildren; his sister, Darlene Morris and her children, Jany, Suzanne, Cindy and David; all of his many comrades from thirty years in   The US Air Force; United States Air Force 57th Alumni.

He was preceded in death by his daughter, LaDonna; his son, Edward Leon Loch, his father, Ora Loch,  his mother, Velma Marie Loch; his brother, Jessie Loch; baby sister, Ellen Loch and his grandson, Garret Steven Parvin; son-in-law, James Clark.