Dwight Russell Weeks

Dwight Russell Weeks, 64, passed away Saturday, April 30, 2011 at V.A. Hospital, Oklahoma City.

Dwight Russell Weeks was born May 31, 1946. He was baptized at the Straight Christian Church on April 5, 1959 and attended a Christian Church in Edmond, OK as an adult. He attended grade school at Straight and graduated from Guymon High School in 1964. He enlisted in the Navy and served from 1966-1970 during which time he trained as a corpsman. He did a tour in Vietnam as a corpsman attached to the Marines where he received three medals: the National Defense Service Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal, & the Vietnam Campaign Medal. After leaving the Navy, he was a father, a farmer, a real estate broker, a traveler, and a lifelong student. He earned an anthropology degree from Florida State University, a business degree from Texas Tech University, a computer science degree from the University of Central Oklahoma, and a computer programming degree from the University of Phoenix. In addition to his studies, he loved to travel and explore new places. He passed that love of travel on to his children. He had made Oklahoma City his home for the past twenty-four years.

He is preceded in death by his father and mother, Russell and Emma Weeks, and two nieces, Lacrisha Diane Earls and Lauren Taylor.

He is survived by his daughter, Kimberly Loewenstein; his son, Douglas Weeks; sister, Phyllis and husband, Tom Stephens; and his grandson, Liam Loewenstein.

Services will be held at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, May 5, 2011, at the Henson-Novak Funeral Chapel, 501 NW Fifth St, Guymon with Rev. Wayne Dawson, pastor of Church of the Nazarene, officiating. Military Graveside Rites will follow in Elmhurst Cemetery.