History / About Us

1935 Crossland Auto Glass was started as Lawton's original auto glass replacement shop. 

 
Carl Crossland

1947, when Gene was 14, he quit school and went to work for Mr. Crossland. At that time they offered boat repair, auto body, and auto glass. 

 
1965 Gene purchased the business from Mr. Crossland and soon after he shut down the boat repair and auto body repair facilities and began to specialize in auto glass replacement.

1974 Gene Burk Auto Glass Specialists was forced to relocate for urban renewal.  Lawton's Central Mall is now located where the old shop was located. 

1979 Gene formed a corporation and it became Gene Burk Auto Glass Specialists Inc.

1995 sons Mike Burk and Shane Burk purchased the business from Gene and continued the family tradition of quality and value.

1996 Only one year later Mike and Shane were beginning to realize the customer demand for mobile service. They purchased and customized their first full time mobile truck. It included an on board generator and awning to pull the vehicles under.

1999 Mike and Shane opened their second location in Altus Oklahoma and began servicing far western Oklahoma and north western Texas.

2000 It wasn't long before the need was realized for a second fully equipped mobile truck to cover the larger service area that had been established. In June the second full service mobile unit was put in service.

2001 On May 1st Gene Burk Auto Glass opened its third full service location in Duncan, Oklahoma and began servicing further east into Oklahoma.

2001 On May 27th late Sunday evening Gene Burk Auto Glass experienced a set back when a large windstorm came through and caused extreme damage to our Lawton location.  After finding a temporary location to continue operations out of we moved what was left on Monday, Memorial Day, and was open for business Tuesday morning in a temporary location.

2002   On July 15th the reconstruction at the original location was completed and we reopened in our new building back at the corner of Sheridan and Lee.

2005 Mike buys Shane’s shares of the business and closes our Duncan location.

Currently Gene Burk Auto Glass offers full auto glass service from two physical locations where you can always find us, but also when the need arises we can come to your location with one of our five mobile units.