Alonzo Beckwith

May 23, 1941 - July 16, 2020

Lonnie Alonzo Gilbert Beckwith was born on May 23, 1941 to Gilbert Beckwith and Mary (???) Beckwith. He was raised by his Grandparents; Alonzo Gilbert Beckwith and (???) in the Aline Cleo, Oklahoma area. When Lonnie finished school, he worked with horses. He then joined the Army where he served for 19 months. He went to Korea, fighting for our country. After he got home from the Army, he managed a thoroughbred horse ranch near Little Rock, Arkansas. He then came back to Oklahoma and worked different jobs in the oilfield and worked in electrical highline work for many years. In 1987, he began working in maintenance at the Alfalfa County Courthouse until he retired in 2011. Lonnie enjoyed fishing, working with horses, tending to his tomatoes and his garden, playing games on the computer and watching television with his Grandson, Jr. Lonnie is preceded in death by his grandparents Alonzo Gilbert & (???) Beckwith, his parents Gilbert & Mary Beckwith, one sister Carolyn Furrow, one brother Ronnie Dale Beckwith, one half-sister Mary Ellen Shoup, a niece Sally Ann (???), a nephew Gary (???), one infant nephew, and (possibly another???) He is survived by his wife Randi Beckwith of Cherokee, OK…etc… Memorial Contributions may be made to the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation? through Wharton’s Funeral Chapel