Memorial Service and Military Honors for Harvey Dwaine Parker, 77, of Fairview will be at 2:00 p.m., Saturday, April 8, 2017 at the Fairview Cemetery, Fairview, Oklahoma. The Reverend Carl Morrow will officiate. Arrangements are by Fairview Funeral Home, Inc.

Harvey Dwaine was born May 14, 1939 to Charles Neal and Rosa Marie Ellen (Carpenter) Parker and passed away Saturday, April 1, 2017 at the Fairview Regional Medical Center in Fairview. He attended grade school at Union School, west of Fairview and then transferred to Fairview Public Schools. Harvey Dwaine joined the United States Army at the age of sixteen. He earned his GED while serving. He then left the Army. Work was hard to find so once again, he enlisted. While stationed in Germany, he met Hildegard Halbhuber and her daughter. Harvey Dwaine was sent back to the United States. He was stationed in North Carolina. He sent for Hildegard and April. The couple was married at the courthouse the next day. The family lived in Fayetteville, North Carolina for a year when Harvey Dwaine was sent to Thailand. The girls came to Fairview to stay with Neal and Rosie until Harvey Dwaine returned to North Carolina.
Harvey Dwaine was a Green Beret and a member of the 101 st Airborne Division where he jumped out of planes as a parachutist. He was sent to Vietnam and while serving during combat, he stepped on a land mine and lost both of his legs below the knee. He was sent back to the US to Fitsimmons General Hospital in Denver, Colorado for a lengthy recovery. His wife and daughter were flown by the military there to visit him. Harvey received the Purple Heart, Army Commendation Medal with OLC, Good Conduct Award, Parachutist Badge, Vietnam Campaign Medal, and the Vietnam Service Medal with 2 Bronze Service Stars.  The family moved to Oklahoma and lived in Fairview while a house was built on the farm 12 ½ miles west of Fairview. Harvey Dwaine was an active Lifetime member of the VFW.

Preceding him in death are his parents, his sister, Mary Katherine Bowers and one niece.

Surviving him are his wife of the home, his daughter, April (Gillie) and husband, Charles Dunning, grandson David Leathers all of Fairview, great granddaughter, Destinie Leathers and Brandon Grider of Stillwater, Oklahoma, one brother, Ed (Eddie) and his wife Karen Parker of Binger, Oklahoma and brother in law, Dwight and Nina Bowers of Fairview, and step mother Edna Parker of Norma, Oklahoma.