Service Thursday for Hubert Ira Lampkin
Services for Hubert Ira Lampkin, 86, will be held Thursday, February 14, at 2:00 p.m. in the Centennial Chapel of Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home in Ardmore, OK, with Reverend Bruce Kirby officiating. Interment with military honors provided by the Chickasaw Nation Honor Guard will follow at Rose Hill Cemetery.
A time of visitation and support for the family will be Wednesday evening at the funeral home from 6:00 till 7:00 p.m.
The son of the late William Ira and Hazel Viola Casey Lampkin, Hubert was born September 22, 1932 at Lehigh, Oklahoma and passed away on February 9, 2019 at the Ardmore Veterans Center.
He and the former Alice Leora Woodell were married September 30, 1952, and in October Hubert was called to serve our country. He served four years in the US Navy during the Korean Conflict. He was honorably discharged October 1956.
Hubert was a truck driver and driver instructor. He owned and operated Lamp-kin Trucking for many years, where he and Alice traveled all over the United States. He was very proud of his Chickasaw heritage and was a member of the Nation’s senior community and the Chickasaw Warrior Society. After retiring from driving, he began raising cattle and continued until his health began to fail.
Hubert is survived by his children, daughters Hazel Darter and her husband Larry and Sheila Lamp-kin; and sons, Donny and Danny Lampkin, and Hubert Lamp-kin and his wife Shelly; grandchildren, Amy Culbreath, Jonathan and Mark Vaughn, Kerry Lamp-kin, Kimberly Staton, Jeremy Ross, Stephanie Lee, Marc, David, James and Reanna Lampkin, 29 great-grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Alice January 20, 2016, daughter Barbara Ogle, grandson Trevor Cullins, brothers, Alfred and James Lampkin, daughter-in-law Jan Lampkin and son-in-law John Vaughn.
Services are under the direction of Harvey-Douglas Funeral Home and Crematory where condolences and words of comfort may be left for the family online at www.hdouglasfuneralhome.com.