Graveside service for Preston August Masquelier, 80 year-old Custer City, Oklahoma resident, will be held Wednesday, February 11, 2015, 10:00 AM in the Custer City Masonic Cemetery with Lorenzo Dunford officiating. Service is under the direction of Lockstone Funeral Home of Weatherford.

Preston was born on November 3, 1934, to August and Bertie Leona (Preston) Masquelier in Custer City, Oklahoma and passed away in his home on Saturday, February 7, 2015. He was raised and attended school in Custer City, graduating with the Class of 1953. On September 7th, 1953 he married Naomi May Mosburg in Cordell, OK and they made their home in Custer City. They lived in Wichita Falls, TX from 1954 to 1957 while he served in the U.S. Air Force before returning to Custer in 1960s. He farmed and worked various jobs such as the Clinton cotton oil mill, helped build the concrete elevators as Custer City and Rocky, worked at Macs farm supply and eventually trucked for ten years. Preston enjoyed making the rounds in Custer City and talking to friends. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Custer City Fire Department, PO Box 361, Custer City, OK 73639.

Preston is preceded in death by his wife Naomi May (Mosburg) Masquelier and sister Gladys (Masquelier) Engel. Preston is survived by his three sons Danny Ray Masquelier of Custer City, Preston Wayne Masquelier and wife Kandace Dawn of Fay, OK, Ronnie Gene Masquelier of Custer City, OK; one sister Star Jacobs of Huntingdon, PA; one sister in law Linda Sue Fergason and husband Howard of Tuttle; four granddaughters Jessie Lyn Masquelier-Sitton and husband Jeremy Sitton of Fay, Holly Ann Masquelier of Fay, Kendall Ray (Masquelier) Humphreys and husband Blaine Humphreys of Weatherford, Staci Lane Masquelier and fianc Ryan Sweeden of Weatherford; and one great-granddaughter Macee Jo Masquelier of Fay.