Benjamin Leforce

Funeral services for Benjamin Harrison LeForce, 64, of Enid, will be at 2:00pm

Friday, January 28, 2011, at Bethel Hawley Baptist Church with Reverend Bob

Smith and Reverend Gary Lillie officiating. Burial will follow in the Pond Creek

Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Ladusau-Evans Funeral

Home.

Ben was born to Henry S. and Betty Ann Harrison LeForce on a wheat farm March

9, 1946 in the Great Plains of Oklahoma, and entered his next life on Tuesday,

January 25, 2011. He became a Christian at age nine and was baptized in the First

Baptist Church of Nash, Oklahoma.

He is survived by his wife, Paula, of the home, and three children, Spencer LeForce

and his wife Nicole, and their three children, Katarina, Kamber, and KaLynn

LeForce of Pond Creek, Oklahoma; Amy Kellogg and her husband, Sam, and their

three children, Isaac Wilson, Levi Wilson, and Konner Kellogg of Shawnee,

Oklahoma; and Scott LeForce and his wife, Sarah, and their son, Michael LeForce,

of Mustang, Oklahoma. He is also survived by his brother, Henry C. LeForce, and

his wife, Billie Jayne, of Pond Creek, Oklahoma, and numerous nieces and

nephews.

Ben began hunting rodents, sparrows, and tin cans as a boy and was soon

shooting upland game with his father and grandfather. He attended the Nash

Public School System, and his boyhood dream was to hunt “The Big 5” of African

dangerous game. It was through this endeavor that he and his wife, Paula,

became actively engaged in the safari business.

By the age of 20, he acquired a 30.06 that, over the years, has accounted for

whitetails, antelope, and other North American game. He also has guided many

successful hunts on the family ranch.

As a businessman, his family farm has been developed into one of the premier

seed production and marketing companies in the United States. During that time,

he received the Oklahoma Premier Seed Dealer Award.

He was also a member of Oklahoma Crop Improvement Association, Oklahoma

Grain Inc., The Field Seed Institute, Oklahoma Seed Trade Association, Safari Club

International, Dallas Safari Club, International Professional Hunters Association,

Professional Hunters Association of South Africa, Endowment member of the

National Rifle Association, and co-founder of the NRA museum in Washington D.C.

Memorials may be made to Bethel Hawley Baptist Church. Condolences may be

emailed to the family at ladusauevans@suddenlinkmail.com.

Ben’s Final Words ~ “Do not mourn for me, my friends, for I am in a place of

unlimited game with an endless supply of ammunition and a great guide.”