A memorial service for former Oklahoma Gov. George Nigh has been scheduled.
The service will be held at 11 a.m. Aug. 14 at Crossings Community Church, Nigh family spokesman Bob Burke said. The church building is at 14600 N. Portland Ave. in Oklahoma City.
Nigh, a legendary politician who served in the state’s highest office four times before becoming president of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond, died Wednesday, July 30, at age 98.
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Nigh’s body will lie in state from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, Aug. 4, in the fourth-floor rotunda of the state Capitol.
Gov. Kevin Stitt issued an executive order directing all U.S. and Oklahoma flags on state property to be flown at half-staff until 5 p.m. on the day of Nigh’s internment.
Nigh, from McAlester, served as governor for nine days in January 1963, then for five days in January 1979, as he completed the terms of previous governors J. Howard Edmondson and David Boren, respectively, after they each left to join the U.S. Senate.
Nigh was elected to full terms as governor in 1978 (taking office in January 1979, after his five-day term replacing Boren had ended) and 1982, making him the first person to be re-elected as Oklahoma’s governor. Nigh had previously served as lieutenant governor and as an Oklahoma House representative.
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