Bruce L. Pinion

Funeral services for Bruce L. Pinion, 80, Clinton resident, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Clinton First Christian Church, officiated by Doyle Kinney and Rick Sandoval.
Pinion died Saturday, May 10, 2014, while visiting in his son’s home in Oklahoma City. He was born Aug. 9, 1933 in Cordell, the son of William Edgar and Flora (Beck) Pinion.
He started his young life in Cordell. His mother died when he was about five years old, and the family moved to Hobart, where he attended his schooling and proved to be an outstanding football player.
His father remarried Lorene Lawhon, and she became Bruce’s mother figure and helped in his raising. He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1951, serving in Korea before being honorably discharged in 1953.
Pinion returned to Oklahoma where he soon met and married Betty Christian on Dec. 12, 1953 in Vernon, Texas. They made their homes in Hobart, Oklahoma City, Kansas and Altus before settling in Clinton in 1959.
He was employed with the Soil Conservation Service for two years as well as working for Gilt Edge Milk Company.
He also owned and operated the Pinion’s Service Station at the Tradewinds for a couple of years.
In 1971 he took over the Mistletoe Express Freight Company and stayed with them until the company closed in 1988.  He then worked for Frontier Express until he semi-retired and then worked for Aaron Sauer’s Car Wash until his full retirement.
He was a member of the Frist Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Betty, of the home; a son, Rob Pinion, of Oklahoma City; two sisters, Thelma Phillips, Laverne, Calif., Pat Wright and her husband, Jim, Grove; a brother, Bill Pinion and his wife Theresa, Wyandotte; seven grandchildren, Jason Pinion, Jeff Pinion, Josh Pinion and his wife, Glenda, Jeremy Pinion, Lynn Pinion, Cassidy Pinion and Timmy Pinion; and one great-granddaughter, Jalynn Pinion.
Preceding him in death were his mother, father and step-mother; and two sons, Steve Pinion and Tim Pinion.
Burial will conclude in the Rose Cemetery in Hobart, under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.