Havner Lile (J.R.) Reid, Jr. was born July 25, 1949 in Okemah, Oklahoma to Havner Reid and Edan Faye (Woffard) Reid and passed from this life September 2, 2022 in Wewoka at the age of 73.

J.R. was raised in the Weleetka area and attended Weleetka School. He was a 1966 graduate of Weleetka High School. Following graduation he served in the United States Army and honorably served his country during the Viet Nam Conflict. While at Tinker Field in Midwest City he married a long-time sweetheart Anita Carol Redford. While J.R was still in the Army they made their home in Ft. Riley, Kansas and spent some three years in Germany. Following his discharge they returned to Oklahoma and made their home in Wewoka the past several years.

J.R. attended Rose State College in Midwest City and later Northeastern State University in Tahlequah where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree focusing on Social Work. He began a career as a Social Worker for the Oklahoma Department of Human Services and retired in 2015.

J.R. was also an ordained Free Will Baptist minister. He had served as youth pastor at the Shady Nook Free Will Baptist Church in Spencer and had pastored in Hanna and spent several years at the Earlsboro Free Will Baptist Church. As his vocation and service in ministry showed his heart was in serving others.

J.R. and Anita had been married 45 years when she preceded him in death in 2015. His father and a brother David also died earlier.

Survivors include: two daughters, April Dawn Zeier and husband Patrick of Wewoka and Angel Burleson and husband Joe of Independence, Kansas; his mother Edna Faye Sangster of Wewoka; a brother Johnny Reid and wife Irene of Lawton; 17 grandchildren, 12 great grandchildren, along with several nieces, nephews, other relatives and many friends.

A graveside memorial service will be held Friday, September 9 at 10:00 a.m. at the Likowski Cemetery near Pharoah followed by a memorial service at the Earlsboro Free Will Baptist Church at 11:30 a.m. Both services will be officiated by Rev. Jimmy Ticer. In lieu of flowers family requests that memorials be sent to the Earlsboro Free Will Baptist Church at PO Box 125, Earlsboro, OK, 74840.