Melton Carroll Hatfield

Funeral Services for Melton Carroll Hatfield of Eakly, Oklahoma are scheduled for 2:00 Thursday, January 23, 2020 at the First Baptist Church in Cordell, under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home, and officiated by Rev. Terrell Romberg. Burial will follow in the Clinton Cemetery. Carroll and his twin brother were born in Binger, OK., on November 5, 1931, and passed away January 21, 2020 at Maple Lawn Nursing Home in Hydro, OK. He was 88 Years and 2 months old. Carroll graduated from Southwestern State College in 1956 with a degree in Automotive Mechanics. He married Patricia Nelson of Yukon, OK., in 1957.. They had two daughters, Justine and Melissa Carol. Carroll worked for the TG&Y warehouse in Oklahoma City for approximately fourteen years. After moving to Weatherford, he and his wife, Patty, ran the famous Porter House Restaurant in Weatherford form 1973 to 1976. From 1976 thru 1979 he was employed in the maintenance department at Southwestern State College. In 1979 he completed basic police training at the Sayre Junior College and was employed by the Custer Country Sheriff’s Department until he retired in October of 1990. In September 1986 Carroll was married to Carolyn O’Dell-Watt in Clinton. He was preceded in death by his parents, Loyd and Rachel Hawkins-Hatfield, his twin brother Harold, his other brothers LeRoy, Raymond, and Jimmy, his sister Wanda Buchannon. He is survived by his wife Carolyn, of the home, his daughters Justine Nelson and her husband Eric of Weatherford, Melissa and her husband Chris Sturm of Cashion, sister Modena Kimble of Guthrie OK., 4 grandchildren, Stephanie Smith, Jarrod Burton, Lindsey Merrell and Grace Nelson all of Weatherford, give great grand children, Koser Smith, Gunnar Smith, Gavin Merrell, Kenzie Merrell and Holland Burton, and Amy Alston of Carriere, Mississippi.