Jerry E. Oxley

January 05, 2023

Funeral service for Jerry E. Oxley was January 3, 2023, in the Becker-Rabon Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Tom Trautman, Elgin United Methodist Church officiating.

Jerry was born April 21, 1940, in Fort Riley, Kansas, to SGM Eugene (Gene) Oxley and Marie (Nicolet) Oxley. Gene was from Muskogee and Marie’s family was from Great Bend, Kansas. Jerry died in his sleep at his home on the O-Cross Ranch on December 28, 2022, after a brief illness.

He worked at Mobile Oil Co., for Harvey Jenkins Construction, and for Dee Young from 1963 to 1970. He began working for Grayson Sand and Gravel and worked there until his retirement in 2018. That is where he met the love of his life, Earlene Grayson, of Lawton, and married her in 1978. He previously had a son, Donnie, with former wife Judy Mae Boyd; and Earlene had two children Rick and Lisa Taylor. Jerry adored his new family.

Jerry is survived by his wife Earlene of the home; children Donnie Oxley (Pineville, Missouri), Rick Taylor and wife Denise (Mountain Park), and Lisa Taylor Glover (Lawton, Oklahoma); brothers Ray Oxley (Mountain Park), Mike Oxley and wife Wendy Fowler (Michigan); grandchildren Jarrod and Carrie Glover (Lawton), Michelle Taylor (Lawton), Tanya (Taylor) and Troy Casbeer (Ardmore), Kami (Taylor) Hodges (Ardmore), Crystal (Oxley) Wilson (Shawnee), and Brittany Oxley (Tishomingo); twelve great-grandchildren, many nieces and nephews, and life time friend ‘Slim Jim’. He was preceded in death by his parents and brother, Clayton.