Bryan Co., OK; Obituary: Mike Pace - p200 --------------------------------- THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT Survivors names omitted. --------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. Files may be printed or copied for personal use only. ----------------------------------------------------- THE DURANT DAILY DEMOCRAT DEC. 30, 1998 Mike Pace, 29 Memorial services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Durant, for Michael Dee Pace, 29, Colbert, who passed away Tuesday, Dec. 29, 1998, at Wilson N. Jones Hospital in Sherman. The Rev. Randa Norman and Sheriff Bill Sturch will officiate. The son of Jerry Pace, Midland, Texas and Judy Jerome, Snyder, Texas. Mike Pace was born on May 30, 1969 in Arlington, Texas. He graduated from Andrews High school in 1987. After high school, he joined the Navy. He graduated from the U.S. Navy Navigation "A" school in Nov. of 1987. He served the U.S. Navy from Aug. 1987 to Aug. 1991 as a helmsman aboard the USS Midway, USS Missouri, and the USS Antietam. His duty, included the service in the Mediterranean Sea during Desert Storm. His awards include Sea Service Deployment Ribbon, National Defense Medal, Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, and Southwest Asia Service Medal. Moving to Bryan County in 1989, be graduated from the CLEET Law Enforcement Academy in Oct. 1994. Mike Pace was a Bryan County jailer from May 1993 to May 1994, Colbert Police Chief from May 1994 to June 1996, and a deputy for Bryan Co. from July 1996 to the present. Burial will be in the Garden of Memories in Colbert under the direction of Dalton-Holmes Funeral Home. Memorials may be made to the Mike Pace Memorial Fund C/O First United Bank, P.O. Box 324, Colbert Ok, 74733.