Selah Rose Lewis Schulze

January 24, 1927 ~ May 27, 2010

© Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home

Submitted by: T.D.

Selah Rose (Lewis) Schulze, Durant, passed away May 27, 2010 at Mercy Hospital in Oklahoma City. She was born in McAlester, Okla. on January 24, 1927. Funeral services include a Rosary at 7 p.m. Friday, May 28 at Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home with a funeral Mass at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 29 at St. William’s Catholic Church in Durant. Internment will follow at Highland Cemetery in Durant under the direction of Holmes-Coffey-Murray Funeral Home.

Selah was educated at St. John’s in McAlester and St. Scholastica Academy in Ft. Smith, Ark. She then attended Oklahoma A&M College in Stillwater, where she was a Kappa Delta and met her husband, Gordon Schulze, a Lambda Chi Delta. They were married at St. Francis Xavier Church in Stillwater. The young couple made their home in Watonga, Muskogee, Durant and Pawnee as Gordon was an Oklahoma Highway Patrolman before finally settling down in Durant in 1969. Selah enjoyed many activities at St. Williams Catholic Church in Durant where she was a member and belonged to the Altar Society. She was also active with the Choctaw Seniors in Durant. She was past president of the Altar Society of Assumption Church in Muskogee, past district president of the Diocesan Council of Catholic Women and a past president of the VFW Women’s Auxiliary in Durant. She was an avid reader and lover of the ocean and Lake Texoma. She enjoyed watching Jay Leno and Nancy Grace, working the daily crossword puzzle, playing Canasta and spending time with her family. She also owned Schulze’s Fabric Shop for several years in Durant, but her main focus was serving as her family’s loving homemaker and matriarch.

Selah was preceded in death by her husband, Gordon Bruce Schulze, her parents, Mosey M. Lewis and Hattie L. (Beams, Lewis) Wright, and a grandson, Michael Nicholas Bryan.

She is survived by her three children: Gordon Bruce Schulze Jr. of Kingston, Okla. and wife Rhonda; Jan Kristin (Schulze) Bryan and husband Stephen of Wister, Okla.; and Stephen Lewis Schulze of Durant. Grandsons include Jeffory Stephen Bryan and wife Jane of Des Moines, Iowa; Justin Schulze and wife Sheri of Durant; Christopher Schulze and wife Lindsay of Durant; Micah Schulze, Garrett Schulze and step-grandson, Aaron Means of Kingston, Okla. Granddaughters include Angela Langley and husband T.D. of Boyd, Texas; Victoria Middleton and husband Larry of Midwest City, Okla. and Lindsay Bryan of Little Rock, Ark. Great-grandchildren are Sara Lynn and Sydney Langley, Hayden and Madison Schulze, and soon-to-be-born, KatieAnn Rose Middleton. She is also survived by a sister, Kay Calzone and husband Frank of Houston, Texas; sister-in-law, Eileen Schulze of Portland, Oreg.; aunt, Mary Aufderheide; cousins, nieces, nephews and many friends. Pallbearers will be her grandsons, Jeffory Bryan, Justin Schulze, Christopher Schulze, Aaron Means, Micah Schulze and Garrett Schulze, as well as family friend, Brian Silver.