Temple, Oklahoma - A memorial service for Charles O'Neal, 68, of Temple, Oklahoma, will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, July 31, 2026, at Hart-Wyatt Funeral Home Chapel, Walters, Oklahoma with Ladd Polk officiating.

Charles Michael O'Neal was born May 27, 1958, in Stuttgart, Germany, and departed this life in Temple, July 9, 2026, at the age of 68 years, 1 month and 13 days.

Charles grew up in Germany until age seven when the family settled in Temple. He graduated from Temple High School in 1976 and soon married Patricia Ann Rogers Aug. 14, 1976, in Meridian. They made their home in Comanche and to this union three daughters were born. Charles worked at Halliburton as a machinist and eventually became a computer programmer. In 1998 he transferred to Halliburton in Carrollton, Texas, living in Dallas. He then worked various jobs as a machinist, eventually becoming a long-haul trucker. He had moved to Wichita Falls in 2010 and back to Temple before retiring in 2025.

Charles enjoyed competition shooting, hunting, fishing and spending time with his grandkids.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Charles O'Neal and Edith McCray; his biological dad, Charles Tindell; and by his grandmother, Edna Rogers.

Survivors include his three daughters, Annette Boucher and Donny, of Duncan, Kerri Oechsner and Luke, of Wichita Falls, Texas and Alissa O'Neal and Eric Adkins, of Wichita Falls; seven grandchildren: Chelynne Boucher, Gavin Boucher, Andrew McKelroy, Evan McKelroy, Hannah Oechsner, Elleigh Cating, Ethan O'Neal; one great-grandson, Elias Boucher with one on the way; his biological mother, Erna Preisser, of Frankfurt, Germany; six brothers and sisters: Kelly O'Neal, of Amarillo, Texas, Michael O'Neal, of Hawaii, Thomas O'Neal and Jill, of Sherman, Texas, Patricia Goths and Rainer, of Germany, Jeanette Tarnowski and Jens, of Germany, Otto Preisser, of Germany; and other relatives and friends.