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Harold Max Cumpston © Enid News and Eagle 12-17-2007 Submitted by: Jo Aguirre
Funeral services for Harold Max Cumpston, age 79, of Enid, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Dr. Shelia Francis Combs officiating. Burial will follow in Memorial Park Cem-etery under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home.
He was born September 24, 1928, in Enid, to Orin and Evelyn Beery Cumpston and passed away Saturday, December 15, 2007.
He lived in Enid, attended and graduated from Enid High School in 1946. He attended and graduated from Oklahoma State University in 1951 with a degree in Mechanical Engineering. He married Leila Walker August 27, 1950. Six weeks after he graduated from college, he was called into U.S. Army and commissioned as 1st Lieutenant at Fort Leonard Wood. He was assigned to the 65th Engineering Combat Battalion in Korea in May 1952. Max served a year as an engineer platoon combat leader, where he built supply roads, gun emplacements, and mine field clearings. He returned to the United States in 1953. He went to work for George E. Failing as a design engineer. In September 1960, he was hired by Serv-Air as the director of Civil Engineering at Vance Air Force Base. When Northrop assumed the contract in 1972, he became Manager of Operation assuming overall operation of the base contract for several years. Max received his law degree from OCU in the Spring of 1974. Northrop then wanted him to use his legal knowledge in negotiating contracts both here and abroad. He was transferred to corporate office in Lawton, in 1976. During his assignment with the corporate office he made frequent trips to Europe, Saudi Arabia, and Iran, where he helped establish a working relationship with several mid eastern companies. They engaged him to put together a proposal for the expansion of the Royal Saudi Navy. The proposal effort was successful and consortium of the Saudi Arabian Development Co. and Sheik Fahd Shobokshi was developed. He operated an 800 million dollar contact over five years at the principal ports in Saudi Arabia. Upon returning to the United States on a full time basis he became manager of Vance Air Force Base Environmental Branch and along with a very qualified staff built the finest environmental branch in the Air Force. He retired in January 2001.
He is survived by his children, Chuck Cumpston and his wife Gloria; Amy Cumpston, and Wally Cumpston and his wife Vicki, three grandchildren, Eddie, Kaleigh, and Maddi.
He was preceded in death by his parents and infant son, Max.
Memorials may be made to the New Hope United Methodist Church or Ross Hospice with Ladusau-Evans Funeral Home serving as custodians.
Condolences may be emailed to ladusauevans@sud denlinkmail.com.
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