Services for Curtis Trent are scheduled for Saturday at 2:00 in the Craddock Memorial Chapel with Rev. John Genn officiating. Interment will follow in Hillcrest Memorial Park in Ardmore. The family will host a visitation on Friday evening from 5:00 to 7:00.

Curtis Reeder Trent was born July 3, 1930, in Shamrock, Texas to Lonnie Claud and Samantha Ruth (Reeder) Trent. He passed this life on January 21, 2023, in a local hospital at the age of 92.

Curtis started his education in Lane School, Atoka, and graduated as co-valedictorian from Calumet High school.  After high school he was planning to work the wheat harvest from Oklahoma to Canada to earn money for college, but in Western Kansas he received an offer from a pair of bachelor brothers to work on their Registered Hereford Ranch. He worked at the same ranch for the next three summers. He also worked his way through school by being a house boy for the Alpha Gamma Delta Sorority House. He helped set up, clean up and serve the food for their meals.

He graduated from the University of Oklahoma, College of Pharmacy in 1952. The first in his family to obtain a college degree.

Curtis served his country in the US Army. He was stationed at the Command and General Staff College, US Army at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas and was the staff pharmacist for the base. He filled prescriptions for John Eisenhower, wife and Children as well as other families of officers attending advanced military training.

He worked for the Long Drug Store in Durant for a while and that is where he met Jewel Mozelle Woodruff and they were married June 26, 1955. She predeceased him in 2011. He remarried in May 2014 to Lena Pearl Mead. She predeceased him in 2020.

When he came to Ardmore he worked for the Harris Drug Store for about three years before he and his partner C. Bill Michael  opened the T&M Pharmacy.  T & M purchased and consolidated, Fedler Drug Store, TG&Y Pharmacy Department, Broadlawn Pharmacy, Alsup Drug Store and Tigert Pharmacy. Curtis worked up until July 25, 2022, when he was hospitalized with the illness that he would ultimately succumb to.

Serving as Pallbearers will be Jason Powell, Wesley Powell, Mike Burns, Brandon Roberts, Melvin Posey, Richard Goodman.

Honorary Pallbearers are Howard Deatherage, Dolph Genn, Jr, Gary O'Neal, Jackie Parkey, Deodrick Posey, Ken Powell, and Rick Dodson.

He is survived by his children, Gregory and wife Jacqueline of Ardmore, Bradley, and wife Patricia of Oklahoma City, Ok; grandchildren, Austin and wife Melissa of Oklahoma City, and Olivia of Ardmore; great-grandson, Elan of Oklahoma City, and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by, his Parents, spouses, Mozelle Trent (2011), Lena Trent (2020), siblings, David Trent, Georgia Eagan, Claude Trent, Oma Roth.

Online condolences can be made at craddockfuneralhome.com