Roger Daniel Sokoll

(Slaton) Funeral services for Roger Daniel Sokoll, 80, of Slaton, will be 2 PM, Wednesday, April 6, 2016 at the First United Methodist Church in Slaton with Lewis Holland officiating. Burial will be Thursday, April 7, 2016 at 11 AM in Restland Cemetery, Dallas Texas under the direction of Englunds Funeral Service of Slaton.

   He passed from this life Sunday, April 3, 2016, at home. Roger was born April 16, 1935 in Wilson Texas to Bernard and Lillian Kellner Sokoll. He graduated from Slaton High School and Draughn’s Commercial College. Roger married Gay Burt on February 4, 1961 she preceded him in death in Dec. of 1994. Roger started his career as the Office Manager for Lubbock Electric and retired as the Owner Operator of his own Commercial Electric Motors Company in Hobbs, New Mexico in 1976. Roger married Bobbie Wright on June 10^th 1995, and they have lived in Slaton for the past twenty years.

      He was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Slaton.

   Those left to cherish his memory include his wife, Bobbie of the home; a daughter; Kim Green of Lavon TX; three sons, Rick and wife Jill Sokoll of Frisco, TX; Craig and wife Cathy Wright of Lubbock, TX; Coby Wright of Shallowater TX;  a sister, Carol Sue Kitten of Slaton TX, along with nine grand children and 6 great grandchildren.