Funeral service for SPC Jay Elam Kroboth, 22, of Fort Leavenworth, Kansas will be at 10:00 a.m., on Thursday, August 5, 2010 at First Baptist Church Lawton, Oklahoma with Rev. Anthony Williams, Pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Durant, Oklahoma officiating.

Burial with full military honors will be at Flower Mound Cemetery under the direction of Lawton Ritter Gray Funeral Home.

SPC Kroboth passed away on Sunday, July 25, 2010 in Platt County, Missouri.

There will be a special viewing and visitation for family and friends on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. at the funeral home.

The family of Jay invites family and friends to a reception at First Baptist Church in Geronimo, Oklahoma immediately following the service at Flower Mound Cemetery.

Jay was born on June 26, 1988 in Lawton, Oklahoma to Emit and Samantha (Stevens) Watson. He grew up in Lawton and later the family moved to Ocean Springs, Mississippi where he attended school, participating in ROTC and he played in the school band. After graduating from Ocean Springs High School in 2006, he returned to Lawton and joined the United States Army in 2006 and served in Fort Campbell, Kentucky before being deployed to Iraq in April of 2008. While on leave in Lawton, Oklahoma he married Nicole Michelle Carter July 14, 2008. He returned from Iraq in July of 2009 and they lived in Fort Campbell, Kentucky for five months before moving to Fort Leavenworth in December of 2009. He worked as a Military Police and Emergency Services Dispatcher at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He loved to spend time with his family, going to the movies and going to the mountains. He taught his wife, Nicole how to ride a horse.

He is survived by his wife, Nicole, of the home; his children, Darah Carter and Bladen Jones, both of the home; his parents, Samantha and Jerry Chambers, of Geronimo, Oklahoma, George and Christine Kroboth, of Gulf Port, Mississippi, and Emit and Laura Watson, of Geronimo, Oklahoma. his paternal grandmother, Elva Jo Watson, of Geronimo, Oklahoma; paternal grandfather, George Kroboth, Jr., of Sterling, Oklahoma; three sisters, Angel Kroboth, of Geronimo, Oklahoma, Haley Watson, of Geronimo, Oklahoma and Tiffany chambers, of Norman, Oklahoma; five brothers, Matthew Holmes, of Lawton, Oklahoma, Robert Kroboth, of Lawton, Oklahoma, Caleb Langerhans, of Fredericksburg, Texas, Ezekiel Langerhans, of Fredericksburg, Texas, Cody Watson, of Geronimo, Oklahoma; Steven Chambers and his wife, Lori, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; his mother and father in law, Thomas and Connie Carter, of Durant, Oklahoma; his brother and sister in law, Bryan and Rachel Carter, of Little Elm, Texas; his nephews, Cody and Tanner Ames, of Little Elm, Texas; numerous aunts, uncles, and cousins; and a host of loving friends.

He is preceded in death by his grandparents, Wayne and Lorene Stevens, J.C. Watson, and Irma Kroboth; his great grandmothers, Lorene Johnson and Ina Mae Crow; his uncles, Joe Watson and Jack Watson.