November 22, 1939 – September 5, 2024

Lawton, OK

The Graveside funeral service for Robert Brent Parmenter was at 2 p.m. Friday, September 13, 2024, in Highland Cemetery.

Arrangements are under the direction of Becker-Rabon Funeral Home.

Robert Brent Parmenter, age 84, died Thursday, September 5, 2024, in Lawton, Oklahoma.  He was born November 22, 1939, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Arch M. Parmenter, Jr. and Rosemary (Rayl) Parmenter.  

Brent was a 1957 graduate of Lawton High School and later attended Pomona College in Claremont, California, the University of Oklahoma, and Kansas City Art Institute in Kansas City, Missouri.  He earned bachelor’s degrees in psychology and art history and a master’s degree in Deaf Education.

Brent served in the United State Marine Corps Reserves from 1961-1966.  He taught Aurally Handicapped students in California, was self-employed as a potter, worked as an illustrator for C.A. Parshall, as an illustrator and writer for Jerry Lucas Memory Ministries, taught at Marin Christian Life School and was a writer and illustrator of memory effective teaching materials.

He married Karen Oxendale in September of 1974 in Redding, California.  She preceded him in death on November 23, 2007.

He is survived by his son, Christopher Parmenter; a niece, Nancy Kay Vernon; two cousins, Gina Fraser and Louis Rayl.

His sister, Margaret Lynn Vernon, and an uncle, Jack Rayl, preceded him in death.