Claud Lamar Stratton, 82, of Sheridan, Arkansas, entered into rest on December 30, 2019, at Woodland Heights Senior Living Memory Care in Little Rock. Arkansas. Claud was the son of the late James W. Stratton and Cora M. Ford Stratton, of Sheridan. He was a member of First Southern Baptist Church in Sheridan.

Claud is predeceased by first wife Grace Lacy Stratton, second wife Beatrice Taylor Bradshaw Stratton, brothers Jimmy, Bill, and Dan Stratton, and stepson Brad Bradshaw.

Survivors include his daughter, Karen C. Stratton of Roland, AR, and blended family, wife Willie Grace Vailes Nugent Stratton of Sheridan, stepsons, Wayne Nugent (Glenda) of Dardenne Prairie, MO, Shayne Nugent of Sheridan; stepdaughters, Evelyn Nugent Fachin (Serge) of Sheridan, Marilyn Nugent Fitzwater of Sheridan, Patti Nugent Blundell (Lee) of Star City, also stepson Michael Neil Bradshaw of Sherwood, and special friend, hunting buddy, and former coworker Greg Kulousek of Little Rock.

Claud was an outdoorsman who enjoyed deer hunting, fishing, and camping. He was a charter member of the Stratton Hunting Club since 1951 on the beloved family farm known as "The Stratton Ponderosa" (so named after The Ponderosa of the famed tv show Bonanza). He loved his large lawn and spent countless hours in retirement mowing and weedeating the place to perfection. Many hours were also spent chasing deer away from his fruit trees and garden by day, but then sitting in the sunroom on the back side of the house feeding them corn and watching them eat at night. He was known throughout Grant County as a premier hobbyist tomato gardener, and if you asked for fresh tomatoes, you didn't get a handful, he would hand you a 5-gallon pail overflowing. At all times, he kept a buckeye in his pants pocket, picked from the many buckeye bushes on the farm.

Claud retired from Reynolds Metals with 44 years service at Bauxite, AR and Corpus Christi, TX and from Reynolds International subsidiary Malakoff Industries with 6 years service at Malakoff, TX. He worked all phases of the alumina industry from chemical lab technician to production plant supervisor. He was a chemist by trade. To his credit he holds 4 patents with Reynolds Metals, one which continues to this day to be used in the exploration for oil. He attended Little Rock Junior College (now UALR) and graduated from Little Rock Central High School.

Graveside service will be held Friday, January 3, 2020 at 10:30 a.m. at Lost Creek Cemetery, Sheridan, AR, Brother Feral West officiating. Soloist Lindsay Stratton Norris.

Pallbearers: Billy "Pug" Stratton, Gary Earl Stratton, Jerry Michael Stratton, Michael Stratton, Brandon Stratton, Steve Harris, Greg Kulousek.

Special thanks to the staff of Woodland Heights Senior Living Memory Care in Little Rock and the nurses of Kindred Hospice for care in his final days.