Lonnie Polson was born July 3, 1936, the son of Howard Ivan Polson and Ella Olena Haegert Polson, in Anthony, Kansas.

He was a graduate of Okmulgee Oklahoma State Vo-Tech and his life work was spent as a mechanic, farmer and custom harvester.

He and Ruth Hoskins were married February 15, 1958, and they had been married 63 years. They made their home in Cherokee, Oklahoma, where they first owned a carwash. Lonnie was a a custom harvester who started in 1954 with Donnie Dumbler, then went with Virgil Jenkinson and in 1979 after Virgil's accident, his son, David, went with the harvest crew until...