Fellis Roy Guillory

Fellis "Roy" Guillory, 76, passed from this life on Friday, June 9th, 2023 in Duncan Regional Hospital with his family by his side. Roy was born on Thursday, November 7th,1946 in Basile, Louisiana to Willis Guillory and Della Holland. He enjoyed swimming and riding horses while growing up in Kinder, Louisiana and parts of Texas. Roy joined the U.S. Army right out of school at age nineteen and attended basic training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. He married Penny Kaye Sudberry on March 20, 1968 in Wichita Falls, Texas with whom he had two daughters, Monica and Jami. Not long after getting married, Roy deployed to Crailsheim, Germany and then to Vietnam where he flew on a helicopter crew and was a mechanic for the aircraft earning numerous medals and awards during his service, including an air crewman badge and sharpshooting badge. Following an honorable discharge in 1974, Roy returned home and went to work for Halliburton. He liked repairing and building lawn mowers in his shop and was known to plant and maintain massive vegetable gardens that produced some of the "most beautiful tomatoes."

A natural outdoorsman, Roy taught his kids everything from changing a flat tire to welding to hacks on basic survival. He always made sure the four-wheelers were running good and the pasture had a good path cut down for them to enjoy riding. Roy left Halliburton and moved to Texas where he began a career driving a truck over the road. After retiring from truck driving, he settled back home in southern Louisiana until 2018 when he moved back to Oklahoma near his daughter, Jami, who cared for him until his passing.

He is preceded in death by his parents, grandparents and a grandson, Dru Kole McReynolds of Duncan. He is survived by his daughters, Jami McReynolds and husband, Travis, of Duncan, Monica Hill and husband, Chuck, of Alva, a sister, Priscilla Guillet of Westlake, LA, brothers Robert Guillory of Westlake, LA, Thomas L. Holland and wife Jackie of Deridder, LA, Greg Holland and wife Linda of Lake Arthur, LA and Kevin Soileau and wife Midori of Japan, five grandchildren; Clayton and Colby Hill of Alva, Darius, Lexxus and Oakley McReynolds of Duncan and one great-grandson, Atlas Dru McReynolds of Duncan.

Graveside memorial service with military honors will be held on Friday, July 7th at 10:00 am located at the National Cemetery in Elgin, Oklahoma under the direction of Bailes-Polk Funeral Home.