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April 8, 2013 Richard Lee Doye Funeral service for Richard Lee Doye, 85, Lawton, will be 2:00 p.m. Thursday in St. John Lutheran Church with Rev. Dr. Bill Schneider, Pastor, and Rev. Mark Mozeik, Associate Pastor, officiating. Mr. Doye died Monday, April 8, at his residence. Burial with military honors will be in Flower Mound Cemetery under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home. Richard was born November 18, 1927 in Lawton, Oklahoma, the son of Carl F. and Lulu Amelia [Korthaus] Doye. He attended school at Lincoln Elementary, Lawton Junior High School and Lawton High School, where he was a member of the LHS Band. He also worked in his father's grocery store on Second Street while going to school. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy on February 23, 1945, received his basic training at San Diego, California, and was then sent to Bremerton, Washington, where he boarded the aircraft carrier USS Wasp. He served aboard the Wasp for his entire time in the Navy. The ship was sent to the Pacific Theater of Operations as part of the third fleet. It was involved in the battle off Honshu and its bombers took part in the Battle of Tokyo Plains. The ship was stationed off the coast of Japan when the atomic bomb was dropped and its guns shot down the last Kamikaze of the war. The ship dropped relief supplies to prisoners of war who had been captured on Bataan and Corregidor. Following the war the ship returned to the U.S. and was refitted with bunks to bring home American soldiers from Europe which included trips to Italy and England. This assignment was known as the Magic Carpet. Richard eventually returned to Norman, Oklahoma, where he was discharged as a Storekeeper Third Class on August 20, 1946. On returning to Lawton he married Virginia Howard. He worked for Ozmun Foods and later Arkla Gas Company for thirty years. Following his retirement from Arkla he worked for People's Ice Company and Lawton Auto Parts. On October 5, 1985 he married Mary Lou Owens in Lawton. In 1998 they moved to a farm east of Lawton where they enjoyed a great retirement. He is survived by his wife, of the home; five children and their spouses, Carolyn and Allen Sheen and Marsha and Kenneth Dorsey, all of Kearney, Nebraska, Rebekah Stone, Amarillo, Texas, Ruth Ann and Einer Christensen, Burleson, Texas, and Juanita C. Mizell, Lawton; 19 Grandchildren and their spouses, Cindy Austin, Kearney, Brian and Dani Erickson, Elm Creek, Nebraska, Vicky and Shane Grube, Kearney, Gwen and D.J. Buck, Odessa, Nebraska, Christopher and Abby Erickson, Elm Creek, Nebraska, Angelia "Angie" and Tom McDaniel, Midland, Georgia, Christy and Joel Stinson, Boise, Idaho, Steven and Dea Dorsey, Carrolton, Texas, April McCarty, Michigan, Holly and Warren Bismarck, Ft. Richardson, Alaska, Benjamin and Jennifer Resler, Lawton, Dustin and Katie Stone, Colorado Springs, Colorado, Elisabeth Stone, Amarillo, Texas, Gregory and Sara Stone, Amarillo, Samual and Jamie Christensen, Burleson, Texas, Joanna and Tommy Biggs, Burleson, Jason and Jada Christensen, Bitely, Michigan, Lucus Mizell, Lawton, and Crystal and Rusty Haumesser, Aviano, Italy; 33 Great Grandchildren. His children, Richard V. Doye and Janet Lee Resler, and five siblings, Arthur Doye, Natalie Hall, Leonard Doye, Albert Doye and Edna Siller, preceded him in death. |
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