Funeral services for Gerald Lee Srader will be 3:00 PM, Friday, February 15, 2019 at the Fairview Funeral Home Chapel with Reverend Gary Eastin officiating.  Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery.  Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home Inc.

Gerald Lee Srader was born on Groundhog Day, February 2, 1930 to Doyle and Stella (Burlison) Srader in Fairview, Oklahoma, in an office above Kidd Drug.  He passed from this life February 10, 2019 after a long illness.  He never complained and expressed that he knew his Lord and was ready

Gerald grew up in Major County and attended Fairview, Forrest Home and Ringwood schools.  Attending Okmulgee Technical Institute he learned diesel mechanics.  He joined the Air Force and was stationed in California at Hamilton Field.  He went to Tulsa where he built airplanes then to Alamogordo, New Mexico.  Gerald took a job with Northrup at Vance Air Force Base in Enid, Oklahoma as a jet engine mechanic.  He was Lead Man and retired there after 42 years. His folks helped him buy land and begin his farming and ranching business.  He enabled his Aunt Mildred Nowels and his mother to continue farming by farming and ranching with them.

Gerald and Carol Folger were married in 1950 and were blessed with five children, Roger, Jerry, Johnny, Jeanne and Peggy and adopted a grandson, Michael and raised him as their own.  Carol passed away just shy of them being married 50 years.  Gerald met Wanda Cochran Chambers while they both were doing military funerals for the American Legion.  He liked to say "I picked her up in a cemetery."  They were married March 17, 2001, at Goltry, Oklahoma.  Gerald was District Commander of the Oklahoma American Legion.  They were members of the King Hagen Post and then Jayne Kennedy Post in Ames.  Gerald began his love of reading at the age of 47.  He read every Louis Lamoure novel he could get his hands on.  He enjoyed his farm and cattle.  When his health grew worse, Wanda took over the farming until she wasn't able.

Surviving him are his wife, Wanda, daughters, Jeanne Srader of Ringwood and Peggy Diaz de Leon of Colorado, and son Michael, two step-sons, Tony Chambers and wife Sue of Arkansas, and Tommy Chambers of Enid, several grandchildren, great grandchildren, family and friends.

He was preceded in death by his parents, wife Carol, and three sons, Roger, Jerry and Johnny.

Memorials can be made to Hospice Circle of Love with the funeral home handling the funds.