Roy Lee Lockett

Roy Lee Lockett was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania, in the spring of 1938. He grew up among family until he followed his older sister, Leona, and family to Oregon, to be educated in the Pacific Northwest.

He went to school then got a job at the Post Office as a mail sorter. He married and had three kids, Debbie, Chris, and Rodney. As he trained for bigger jobs, his family kept him busy. His hobbies were tinkering on TV’s, crabbing with friends, and teaching his girls how to fish. Even with all the state-of-the-art fishing gear, he still managed to get beat out by his four-year-old little boy, sitting on the dock with a fish hanging from his toy Mickey Mouse fishing pole. Something he jokingly never lived down.

With school and training, he went up in the ranks at the Post Office to ET where he retired 25 years later with the respect of all who knew him. Once he retired, he taught his family many traits, helped remodel homes, build pole barns, but mostly find their dreams. He vacationed in his later years and had many adventures. He went parasailing in his 80’s and did a lot of cross country traveling. Animals loved him as did many.

He was a father of three but a grandfather, great-grandfather, and friend. The simple way he’d comfort people by just being there & silently listening is a memory that many will carry with them. The last piece of advice he gave his granddaughter was, “B, just be who you are – who you’re meant to be.” Simple advice but resonating.

He is survived by his three kids, Debbie Moschak, Chris Brooks, and Rodney Lockett; girlfriend, Alison Herdener; sisters, Leona Weakland and Janet Sechrist; brother, Howie Lockett, and his many grandkids, great-grandkids, nieces, and nephews.

There’s nothing more beautiful than a life fully lived. Swift Wings “Studmuffin” …

A Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00AM, Thursday, December 7th, 2023, at St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Milwaukie, Oregon.