Obit of Lilley, Hubert J. - Bryan County, Oklahoma

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::Highland Cemetery--Durant OK

Amarillo Globe News 25 Nov 1997

Hubert J. Lilley

DURANT, Okla. - Hubert J. Lilley, 77, died Saturday, Nov. 22, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Calvary Baptist Church with the 
Rev. Paul Koonce and Roy Boatner officiating. Burial will be in Highland 
Cemetery by Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home.

Mr. Lilley was born in Durant. He had been a lifelong resident of Durant 
and Bryan counties. He attended Roberta, Blue and Durant schools. He 
graduated from Utica High School.

He married Eula Faye Mattingly in 1944 at Durant.

Mr. Lilley worked at the CCC Camp for two years before going into the 
military. He served with the Army during World War II. He was wounded in 
New Guinea and was awarded the Purple Heart.

He was a mail carrier and a rural mail carrier in Durant for 37 years 
before retiring. He was a member of the Veterans Association, the Disabled 
American Veterans and the National Association of Retired Federal 
Employees.

Mr. Lilley was a longtime member of Calvary Baptist Church and was 
ordained as a deacon there in 1949. He also served as chairman of the 
board of deacons, Sunday school director, training union director and 
director of several Sunday school departments.

He was preceded in death by a son, Gary Dean Lilley, in 1976.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Darla Lilley Edgmon of Oklahoma 
City and Shirlene Lilley of Lubbock, Texas; three brothers, Eugene Lilley 
of Mead, and Boyd Lilley and Barnett Lilley, both of Durant; a sister, 
Vella Lilley Adams of Northridge, Calif.; two grandsons; and three great-
grandchildren.

The family will receive friends today from 7 to 8 p.m. at the funeral 
home.

The family requests memorials be to the Calvary Baptist Church parking lot 
fund or steeple fund, P.O. Box 1028, Durant, Okla. 74702.
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