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The graveside services celebrating and honoring the life of Alvin Wilber Lorimer, 84, of Lamont, Oklahoma will be held Saturday August 31, 2024, in the Wray Cemetery, Wray, Colorado with military honors conducted by the United States Marines. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings, A life celebration home.
Alvin was born November 24, 1939, to Wilber and Martha Lorimer in Wray, Colorado and passed from this life August 23, 2024, in Enid, Oklahoma.
He was raised and educated in Wray, Colorado until the age of ten when his family moved to their farm in Fruita, Colorado. He graduated from Fruita High School with the class of 1956. He then enlisted in the United State Marines. While home after boot camp he married his hometown sweetheart Betty Maxwell. The couple moved to twenty-nine palms, California for three years before moving to Grand Junction, Colorado where he worked as a mechanic for Ford Motor Company, he then worked as the Service Manager for Ford, Broomfield, Colorado and then owned and operated his own repair shop, Delta Auto Clinic for a several years before returning to Ford
as the Service Manager in Moab, Utah. The couple then moved to Arizona where he continued working as a Service Manager at Ford for Ten years where he won the prized National Silver Medallion Award. At this time, he and his wife took a CDL class and after becoming licensed he and his wife began trucking driving their rig all throughout the United States. He then retired and the couple moved to Pueblo, Colorado and later to Cortez, Colorado. They then spent several years enjoying their R.V. They settled down in Lamont, Oklahoma to live in a lower altitude.
He was a military expert Marksman with numerous awards and was passionate about flying and aviation and owned and flew his own Piper Cherokee plane and loved attending airshows. He enjoyed traveling and learning the history of the places that they visited, playing darts, bowling, but mostly loved playing and having fun with his grandchildren.
He was a support of “Sanctuary of Hope” A organization that offers support to single and expectant mothers and a member of John Hagey Ministries.
He is survived by the love of his life Betty Lorimer, of the home one son Alvin Douglas Lorimer, of Sheridan, Wyoming, daughters Cherie Hurt and husband Ron, and Brenda Gresham and husband Max, of Joplin, Missouri, grandchildren, John,
Marissa, Joshua, Anna, Kristi, and Matthew, Elysa, Brian and Stefanie; and two sisters Edith Ray and Beverly Thomas, along with nineteen great grandchildren .
He was preceded in death by his parents Wilbur and Martha Lorimer and his sister Marjorie Drost
In his honor the family requests that memorials be given to Sanctuary of Hope, with the John Hagee Ministries with Brown-Cummings serving as custodian of the funds.
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