Lewis Roy Beavin

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Lewis Roy Beavin died Thursday, September 14, 1967, in the Veterans Hospital in Sulphur, Oklahoma.

Requiem Mass was said in the St. Joseph Catholic church with Rev. Cletus Bash officiating.

Lewis, the son of F. A. and Margaret Beavin, was born July 11, 1901 in the Redmon community.

He is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Gene Hefner; one son, Don H. of Lawton; two brothers, Paul of Cheyenne; and Roy of Oklahoma City; four sisters, Virginia Murphy of Cheyenne; Agnes Bumpus of Springer; Mabel Eckroot of Oklahoma City; Esther Kelly of Irving, Texas; four grandchildren, and a host of nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by one son, Russell, his father and mother, one sister and four brothers.

The pall bearers were nephews, Russell Murphy, Howard Beavin, Jerry Beavin, Leon Keahey, Henry Baker and Aaron Cantrell.

Committal was in the Silent Home cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma with Scroggins Funeral Home in charge.

The Cheyenne Campbell-Cross Post provided the color guard and presented the American flag under which Lewis Beavin served his country during World War II and the Korean War.