W. LEE SEXTON

CHAFFEE -- Funeral service for Wallace Lee Sexton of Muskogee, Okla., was held Sept. 6 at Fosters Ivory Chapel in Muskogee, with the Rev. Rick Milam officiating. Burial was in Ft. Gibson National Cemetery in Ft. Gibson, Okla.

Sexton, 72, died Friday, Sept. 1, 1995, at his home.

He was born Jan. 7, 1923, in Rogers Springs, Tenn., son of Walter A. and Una S. Sexton. He married the former Julie Hughes.

Sexton served in the U.S. Army Air Corps during World War II. He received the Purple Heart, European Theater Medal, two Bronze Stars, Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters, Overseas Service Bar, Distinguished Flying Cross and Distinguished Unit Badge.

He moved to Muskogee in the 1960s and helped build the Arkansas Navigational Channel. He retired in 1991.

Sexton was a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Bruce Sexton of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia; a daughter, Cheryl Shirley of Los Gatos, Calif.; a stepson, Marshall Harris of Muskogee; a sister, Luberta Crump of Chaffee, and six grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a brother.