Obit of Eppler, SSG (Retired) Hilbert - Comanche County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Gene Phillips  <okarchives@comcast.net>    03 Jun 2007
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::Sunset Memorial Gardens--Lawton OK

BeckerBecker Funeral Home Obit 22 Dec 2005

SSG (Retired) Hilbert Eppler

Age 78, East of Lawton - Funeral service with Order of the Eastern 
Star rites will be 1:30 PM Tuesday in the Becker Funeral Home 
Memorial Chapel with Rev. Loyd Ashenfelter, Pastor, Salem Missionary 
Baptist Church, officiating.

Sergeant Eppler died Thursday at his residence.

Burial with Masonic rites and full military honors will be in the 
Veteran’s Field of Honor at Sunset Memorial Gardens.

The family will receive friends from 7:00 – 8:00 PM Monday at the 
funeral home.

He was born on March 15, 1927 in Cyril to MAJ (Retired) Rudolf and 
Vera (Merez) Eppler.  He served in the US Army and had tours in 
Germany, Korea and Alaska.  He retired on July 31, 1965.  He married 
Ingeborg M.H. Baumann in Heidelberg, Germany on April 5, 1952.  She 
died on October 26, 1997.  He also worked for civil service at Fort 
Sill for Logistic Property Disposal.  He retired after 21 years.  He 
married Patsy Jean Standridge in Lawton on August 25, 2001.

He was a member of the Salem Missionary Baptist Church, Disabled 
American Veterans, VFW and the American Legion.  He was a member of 
the Masonic Lodge #183, where he was a Past Master in 1972, and a 
member of the Guthrie Valley Scottish Rite.  He was a Past Patron of 
the OSA Chapter #514 Order of the Eastern Star from 1981 – 1982.  He 
was a founding member of the Job’s Daughters Bethel #11 Chapter, a 
Past President of the National Sojourners #129, a Past Commander of 
the Phil Sheridan Heroes of ’76, Past Watchmen of Shepherds of White 
Shriner Jerusalem #24 and a committee member for the Supreme White 
Shrine of Jerusalem, a Past Royal Patron of the Lawton Amaranths #36, 
and a member of the State Royalty Club of Oklahoma Order of the 
Amaranths.  He was a committee member of the Masonic Grand Lodge for 
the state of Oklahoma and was on several other committees on the 
state and supreme level.  He was a Worthy Patron of the Elgin Order 
of the Eastern Star #255 and served as a Chaplain for many of the 
local Order of the Eastern Star chapters.

Survivors include his wife of the home; four daughters and sons-in-
law, Vera Fisher and John of Lawton, Trude Schenker and Scott of 
Lawton, Debbie McPherson and Dan of Tuttle and Amber Stafford and 
David of Lawton; 13 grandchildren, numerous great grandchildren and 
great great grandchildren; two brothers and sisters-in-law, Rudolph 
Eppler and Irma of Dallas, Texas and Daniel R. Eppler and Gloria of 
Geronimo; and numerous other nieces and nephews.

His parents, first wife, a daughter, Ursula Fleming, and two infant 
sisters, preceded him in death.

Memorial contributions may be made to the American Diabetes 
Association, PO Box 1131, Fairfax, Virginia  22018,
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