TOM LAMSON
ADA, OK- Services for Thomas Benjamin "Tom" Lamson, Sr., 86, of Ada, are 1:30 p.m. Friday at the Criswell Funeral Home Chapel, Rev. Bob Langston will officiate.
Mr. Lamson died Sunday, February 10, 2013. He was born on November 21, 1926 at Port Arthur, Texas to Elbert Briggs Lamson and Clare Louise Boule Lamson. He attended school in Port Arthur and graduated from Port Arthur High School in 1944. He served two years in the U. S. Army as a military policeman in Hawaii. After returning from military service, he attended Wichita State University from September 1947 and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Zoology August, 1950.
He married Sylvia Modean Meek on June 4, 1950 at Wichita, Kansas. Tom finished his university studies for medical technology at the Medical College of Georgia, School of Medical Technology in Augusta, Georgia and took his first position in Ada, Oklahoma in 1953 where he specialized in blood banking and immunology and later earned a Master's Degree in education that enabled him to help with the East Central State College medical technology program. On January 31, 1990, Tom retired after a long career at Valley View Regional Hospital. Tom had served as Past Treasurer and President of the Oklahoma Society for Medical Technologists, past member of the American Society for Medical Technologists and the American and South-Central Association of Blood Banks. He was the first Oklahoma Medical Technologist to become registered as a Blood Bank Specialist in 1955 through the American Association of Blood Banks and the American Society of Clinical Pathologists. He served two times as a Board Member of the local Rotary club and was a Paul Harris Fellow of Rotary International.
Mr. Lamson was a gardener and during his retirement, he volunteered as a tax preparer for AARP and helped with Meals on Wheels. He and his wife were devoted members of the First United Methodist Church. He had served on the Administrative Board as Chairman, served on many different committees and was active in Sunday School Class. He was a fisherman, hunter and enjoyed decorating for Christmas inside and outside.
Survivors include his son, Tom Lamson Jr. and his wife Joan of Edmond; a daughter, Sheila Winemiller and husband Jake of Sterling, Nebraska; his grandsons, Jack and Johnson Winemiller, Sterling, NE; granddaughters, Mollie Anne Lamson Brue and husband Dan, Hopewell Junction, NY, Kearby Lamson, Edmond, OK, and Hannah Winemiller, Sterling, NE; and his great grandchildren, Natalie Brue, Hopewell Junction, NY.
He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Modean Lamson on October 3, 2005; and a brother, Frank Lamson.
The family says those who wish may make memorials to the local missions of the First United Methodist Church of Ada, P. O. Box 566, Ada, OK 74821.
Obituaries may be viewed and online condolences sent to criswellfh.com.

Criswell Funeral Home, Ada