LEE SKAGGS
ADA-Services for Lee J. Skaggs, 88, of Ada, are 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Floyd Kaiser will officiate. Burial will follow at Memorial Park Cemetery. The Chickasaw Honor Guard will conduct military honors at the cemetery.
Mr. Skaggs died Saturday, July 27, 2013 at his home. He was born January 20, 1925 in Wewoka, Oklahoma to Lonnie Newton and Emaline Henderson Skaggs. He graduated from Latta High School at later joined the U. S. Army. He served as an Army Medic during World War II. He was honorably discharged as a Master Sergeant.
Following his military service he worked in New York, NY and Ada, Oklahoma in finance and later in Oklahoma City where he retired from Dayton Tire Company, later known as Bridgestone/Firestone.
He married Sandra Sue Brockett on January 31, 1969 in Sulphur, Oklahoma. Mr. Skaggs was a longtime member of the Southwest Church of Christ in Ada.
Survivors include his wife, Sandra Sue Skaggs, of the home; one son, Richard Lee Skaggs; a daughter, Sandra Ann Marsh of Oklahoma City; two grandchildren, Robyn Folmar and Shawn Folmar of Oklahoma City; three great grandchildren; a brother-in-law, Ronnie Brockett and family of Ada; sister-in-law Shirley Ann Perry and family of Ada; and numerous nieces, nephews, and cousins.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three brothers, Horton, Sam and Melburn Skaggs, all of Ada; five sisters, Wilma Morgan, Sarah Dew, and Argie Steele, all of Ada, Margie McGuffey, Lodi, CA, Geneva Thompson, Oklahoma City, and several nieces and nephews.
Bearers will be fellow members of the Southwest Church of Christ in Ada, David Hendricks, Scott Estes, Jack Frye, Eugene Cannon and Richard Howard.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the Haiti Orphanage, c/o Southwest Church of Christ, 505 W. 17th, Ada, OK 74820.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada