Obit of Shipman, Leona C. - Comanche County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 30 Apr 2006 Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Letitia Cemetery--Letitia Ok Lawton Constitution 16 Mar 2003 Leona C. Shipman Funeral for Leona C. Shipman, 78, Lawton, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday at Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home Chapel with Tom Willoughby, First Baptist Church, officiating. Mrs. Shipman died Saturday, March 15, 2003, at a local hospital. Burial will be at Letitia Cemetery under direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home. She was born April 1, 1924, in Duncan to Robert and Francis Rohlman Fietz. She grew up and attended school in Hulen. She married Lester L. Shipman on Feb. 24, 1942, in Lawton. He died on Jan. 25, 2001. Survivors include three daughters: Carey Buckhalter and her husband, Skip; Twilla Presswood and her husband, Don, all of Lawton; and Eyvonne Simpson and her husband, Wallace, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.; a sister, Margaret Jarvis and her husband, Elmer, Walters; eight grandchildren; and several great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; a sister, Marie Peddy; and a brother, John Fietz. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association, 3545 NW 58, Oklahoma City 73112. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Comanche County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/comanche/comanche.html