Billy Ray Lochner

The services celebrating and honoring the life of Bill Lochner, 82, of Enid, will be held 11:00 A.M. Thursday October 9, 2025, in the Brown-Cummings Chapel with Pastor Wade Burleson officiating. Burial will follow in the Memorial Park Cemetery. Services are under the direction of Brown-Cummings, A life celebration home.

Bill was born November 28, 1942, to Ora “Pete” and Maralee (Smith) Lochner in Enid, Oklahoma and passed from this life September 30, 2025, in Enid, Oklahoma.

HE was raised and educated in Enid graduating from Enid High School in 1960, where he was a part of the 1956 district champion baseball team and the 1960 state champion baseball team. He then attended junior college on a baseball scholarship for one year while working at his family grocery store. He married Judy Simpson in 1962 in Enid, and from this union came two children, Jeff and Bill. He began working on a drilling rig as a roughneck for five years before operating Bill’s Convenience Store. He married Candice I. Jones September 22 ,1979 in Enid. He then worked as a sales representative for Ray I. Jones Service Company and later for Hamm and Phillips and Continental Resources where he served on the Board of Directors and was the director of Sales for thirty-five years until his retirement. He was a longtime member of the Moose Lodge and earned the 2015 Followship Degree of Honor.

After his retirement he founded Bills Custom Cookers, building custom smokers and grills for over ten years. He loved going to the lake, fishing and boating, and water skiing. He also enjoyed playing golf, competition cooking, watching football and baseball, and motorcycling, taking trips to Eichen’s. In his younger years he enjoyed street racing.

He is survived by his sons, Jeff and wife Susie Lochner, of Hinton, Oklahoma and Bill Lochner, of Norman; one daughter Demmie Lochner, of Enid; one granddaughter, Nicole Lochner; one grandson, Jake Lochner; and one great granddaughter, Shay Lochner.

He was preceded in death by his wife Candice Lochner and his parents, Ora and “Pete” and Maralee Lochner; and two sisters, Ferral McKay and Diana Semrad.

In lieu of flowers please make memorials in his honor to The Wounded Warriors foundation with Brown-Cummings serving as custodian of the funds.

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