John Edward Knight

John Edward Knight burst into life on July 2, 1968 in Hobart, Oklahoma. His parents, Donnie and June, and sister Donna, testify that he rarely slowed. As a child he was a curious and extremely active, he quickly became known for his smiles, laughter, and loving heart. In Junior High, he discovered a release in football and took his High School Football memories and Coach Hulme into his adult years. He learned about cars and fishing from his Dad and they spent much time together doing both.

The highlight of John's senior year in High School came in Mr. Richardson's Algebra II class where Mr. Richardson taught him how to unlock the mystery of math, something which had baffled him up to that time. From that point forward, John grew in confidence in his God given abilities to learn. Reading, learning, and doing became of growing importance. He studied the Bible and loved the truths of it, having given his life to Jesus as a young boy (September 17 1978).

John went on to attend OSU, graduated with a Bachelor's from Cameron, and earned his Master's from UCO, where he met the love of his life, Mary Brown. John had told his mother that his standards for a wife and mother of his future children were high and he had almost given up, but when he met Mary, it didn't take long for him to know she was the one he had been waiting for. One of the first things he told his parents about her, She is pretty and she is a Christian." He soon learned that she loved dogs and he quickly bought himself a dog.

On November 12, 2005, John Edward Knight and Mary Elizabeth Brown were married at the Messiah Lutheran Church in Oklahoma City. John had always been a happy person but his joy exploded upon marriage to Mary. He loved and protected Mary; not that she needed protecting, but her welfare came before his. Their home was further filled with love when God gifted Mary and John with their son Robert Kelly Knight on September 10, 2009. There has never been a more thankful and adoring husband and father. John had always wanted a family and Robert and Mary made his complete. John and Mary quickly learned they had a son as active and curious as John's parents said he had always been as a child. You rarely saw John without Robert. He was a loving, patient, and instructive father.

John began working as an automotive technician instructor at Great Plains Technology Center in Lawton, Oklahoma, in July of 1997 where he taught and influenced many lives. He began his own side business in 2013 with ice machines in Duncan and Elgin.

John had his family's future in his heart and mind as he worked on the day of his death, March 19, 2016, in Elgin, Oklahoma. He was a man with many friends, an honest man with integrity. He could light up a room with his laughter and gave great hugs.

John is survived by his wife, Mary, son Robert, parents Donnie & June Knight, sister Donna Guthrie and husband Steve, nephews Connor Guthrie and Payton Guthrie with wife Megan and great nephew Adler Guthrie, and Grandmother Charlece Cothrum, Uncle Henry and Linda, Aunt Melruth & Jack, Uncle David & Sherrie, cousins Chuck, Grant, Jeff, Lynn, and Lyndsay. John considered his in-laws as family and includes Jack & Kathy Brown and Connie & Robert Shelton, and sister-in-law Laura and daughter Katie, and brother-in-law Andrew and wife Cathy and their children: Melody, Sarah, Meghan, Emersyn, and DJ. As well as many relatives, friends, and coworkers.

For those interested, an Education Fund is being established for Robert Kelly Knight in memory of father, John Edward Knight.

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Viewing will be held Wednesday, March 23, 2016, from 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. at Ray & Martha's Funeral Home in Hobart, Oklahoma.
Funeral Services will be held 1:00 p.m. Thursday, March 24, 2016, at the First Baptist Church in Hobart, Oklahoma. Burial will follow at Granite Cemetery in Granite, Oklahoma.
Services are under the direction of Ray & Martha's Funeral Home in Hobart.