Larry Don "Donny" Hanes, age 84, of Tipton, Oklahoma, passed away Sunday, June 29, 2025, at his home. In honor of Donny, the family will be having lunch at Noon Thursday July 3, 2025, at the Tipton Senior Citizens Center, 102 E. Main Street. Immediately following lunch at 1:00 p.m., family invites friends to gather at the Church of Christ Fellowship Hall for refreshments and a time of visitation.

He was born on May 6, 1941, in Carnegie, Oklahoma, to Carroll and Juanita (Calloway) Hanes. He attended Laing School and graduated from Tipton High School with the Class of 1959. While in school, he was an outstanding football player for the Tigers. After high school, he attended Cameron College. He was united in marriage to Linda Kaye Covington in 1962, at the Hanes family farm east of Tipton. He lived in Dallas, Texas, and worked in construction, helping to build the Dallas Cowboys Texas Stadium and the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport. In 1985, he returned to Tipton to farm. Donny's passion was working on cars and building dragsters with his brother Carroll Dean. Carroll Dean was the mechanic and Donny was the driver. Donny was very wise, stubborn, and funny, all together. He was tremendously generous and loved his family deeply.

Survivors include a son: Charles "Chuck" Hanes and wife Adrian, of Elgin, Texas; a sister: Susie McCormack, of Sugarland, Texas; two grandchildren: Alie Hanes and husband Juan Carlos Lopez Garcia and Caroline Hanes.

In addition to his parents, he was preceded in death by a son: Jeffery Don Hanes; and his brother and "partner in crime": Carroll Dean Hanes.