Harvey I. Rhoads Jr.

Funeral services for Harvey I. Rhoads Jr., 67, former Clinton resident, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Clinton Indian Community Center, east of Clinton, officiated by Gerald Panana, and burial will follow in the Clinton Indian Cemetery, under the direction of Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home in Clinton.

An all-night wake service was held Friday in the Indian Community Center.

Rhoads was born Feb. 16, 1947 to Harvey and Sophia (Goodblanket) Rhoads in Clinton and died Saturday, Aug. 23, 2014, in the Ardmore Veterans Center.

Rhoads was raised in Clinton and graduated from Clinton High School in 1965. He was married to Kay Wallace in 1968, and he later married Doreen Bell in 1976.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1966 and was honorably discharged in 1968, serving during the Vietnam Era.

He was an inventor of numerous items, including some patented items. He authored numerous short stories and wrote a book. He was a bead worker, buckskin craftsman, a connoisseur chef and was fluent in the Cheyenne language.

Preceding him in death were his parents; brothers, Arleigh and Murray Sr.; sisters, Colleen Cometsevah, Leatrice Poweshiek and Norman Clark; and two infant brothers, Spurgeon and Frankie.

Survivors include two daughters, Krishna Bear and her husband, Matthew, Shawnee, and Kara Rhoads and her husband, Sergio Labrada, Newton, Kan.; and five grandchildren, Kiera, Micah, Cole, Ethan and Sydney.