Donald Lewis "Don" Webster was born September 8, 1938, in Medford, Oklahoma, to Marvin Lewis Webster and Mildred Schmitz Webster. He was preceded in death by his sister, Deloris Webster Boyer, in 2016.

He grew up in a wheat farming community where his father relied on him for much of the farm work, including feeding livestock, plowing fields, and harvesting grain.

In high school, he played multiple sports but excelled at football, playing linebacker and other positions as needed. After high school, he joined the Army Reserve and served in an Engineering Division where he built bridges and buildings during training exercises. He once laughed about completing projects just to have the demolition team "blow it all up."

He met his wife, Virginia "Kay" Bower, in the summer of 1959 when he would park the wheat truck after dumping a load of grain at the elevator and run into her family's drive-in restaurant to get a chocolate shake. Her family had moved to Medford from Perry, Oklahoma, just months before to open the drive-in.

Don spent several years at Northwestern Oklahoma State University studying physical education but left college to help with the farm. He eventually joined Conoco Oil Company in 1966, beginning what would become a 27-year career.

In fall 1966, he was transferred to Alton, Illinois, where he worked at Conoco's Wood River Terminal. There, Don and Kay adopted their infant son, Kenneth, in spring 1968. They soon moved again when Conoco transferred Don to Spartanburg, South Carolina.

During their five years in Spartanburg, Don received a promotion to supervise Terminal operations. In summer 1970, Don and Kay adopted their infant daughter, Kelly, completing their family.

Work called again, and Don moved the family to Belle, Missouri, for six months before settling in Wichita Falls, Texas, where Kenneth and Kelly started school and created many cherished memories.

In 1977, Don's final transfer brought the family full circle back to Medford, where he managed pipeline operations. In 1985, Conoco assigned him to a project in Alaska as a welding inspector for the Alaska Pipeline, the pinnacle of his career with the oil company. He made multiple trips to the Arctic Circle, inspecting each pipeline joint designed to be environmentally friendly and survive sitting above ground on the tundra. He took great pride in his contributions to this important project.

Outside of work, Don enjoyed coaching Little League football and baseball, sharing the finer points of sports with his son Kenneth. He was an avid quail and pheasant hunter, spending many days hunting and teaching his son the skills he learned growing up in rural Medford.

He also took pleasure in building, repairing, and improving his home, using skills naturally acquired while farming with his father. Machinery had to be repaired, barns built, and fences mended. He enriched his children's lives by passing on these abilities.

Don's retirement years were equally active. After retiring from Conoco in 1993, he built a house in Grove, Oklahoma, on the Lake of the Cherokees, using 100-year-old lumber recovered from a barn he dismantled in Medford. In Grove, he enjoyed taking RV trips, spending days on the lake, and fishing.

The pull of having both children and grandchildren in Austin, Texas, proved strong. Don and Kay sold their retirement home and moved to Georgetown, Texas, in 1998 to be near family.

Living in Sun City, Georgetown provided a wonderful retreat where he spent many days playing golf, working in the community woodshop, and enjoying retirement. Don and Kay shared 27 years of retirement together, watching their family grow, graduate, serve in the Army, marry, start new careers, and experience all the wonderful things that make life enjoyable.

Don passed away Friday, January 17, 2025, peacefully, complete and whole, as he would have wanted. He is survived by his wife of 63 years, Kay Webster; son Kenneth "Ken" Webster; daughter Kelly Webster; grandchildren Trevor Smetana, Austin Smetana, Madison Fox, Joseph Webster, Thomas Webster, and Kailey Johnson; and great-grandchildren Lyla Fox, Ember Fox, Skylar Fox, Jayce Bazer, and Jaylee Smetana.