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Phillip John Rieman Mar 3, 1949 - Apr 24, 2019
Submitted by Glenn
Enid News & Eagle
26 April 2019
Phillip John Rieman, age 70, resident of Enid, Oklahoma,
left this life on April 24, 2019. He died at his home,
under the care of his loving spouse, Julia C. Rieman and
beloved daughter, Amy A. Pope and Hospice Circle of
Love, of Enid, Oklahoma.
A Visitation for Phillip will
be held on Sunday, April 28, 2019, from 1:00 P.M to 6:00
P.M with the family receiving guests from 4:00 P.M to
6:00 P.M.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 A.M,
Monday, April 29, 2019, at Zion Lutheran Church in Perry
with Pastor Peter Olson officiating.
Interment will
follow at Pleasant Valley Sumner Cemetery, in Sumner,
OK. Services have been entrusted to the care of Dighton-Marler
Funeral Home of Perry.
Phillip was born in Stillwater, Oklahoma March 3, 1949
to Vivian and Henry ("Hinie") Rieman. He grew up on a
farm in Sumner, Oklahoma where he learned how to work
hard and grew up strong. Growing up, Phill loved to hunt
and fish and while he lost his interest in hunting when
he got older, he never lost his love of fishing. Fishing
was something he enjoyed all his life, and he passed
that passion on to his grandsons. He graduated from
Morrison, Oklahoma High School in 1967. Following high
school he enlisted in the Navy in 1969 and was then
shipped off to Viet Nam where he served on a destroyer,
the USS Henry Tucker. When he returned to Oklahoma after
his service to his country, he returned home and married
Rachel Kennedy in 1972. He became a father to Rachel's
three children, Mark Davis, Garey James and Rejina
James. He and Rachel had twin daughters together, Amy
and Jamie. Several years after his marriage to Rachel
ended, he met his soulmate, Julia C. Piety. Phillip and
Julia married in Stillwater, Oklahoma May 2, 1987. Their
marriage lasted the rest of his life.
As a young man, Phillip helped to build a portion of the
Cimarron Turnpike in Oklahoma. He worked for several
years farming before going on to a career at National
Standard in Stillwater, Oklahoma. He received the Gene
Riggs Award from the Gaslight Theatre in Enid, Oklahoma
in the 2004-2005 season, for his work behind the scenes
on set construction. He was a gentle, but incredibly
strong man, with a heart bigger than the Oklahoma skies.
There wasn't anything he couldn't build or fix and no
project he was afraid to tackle. Phillip and Julia's
home in Enid, Oklahoma, reflects his handiwork in every
corner, from the brick wall and sidewalks out front to
the interior walls with arched doorways, the ceramic
tile floors, fireplace and so much more, inside.
He loved animals and even trained a squirrel to come and
eat from his hand. His wonderful sense of humor never
left him, even when he had entered hospice care at the
end of the truly heroic battle he fought against cancer.
When he left this life, he went to join his father and
mother, and his many beloved pets, including dogs,
Maxine, Michelle, Boy and Little Girl and cats
Gabrielle, Lucinda, Emily Felicity, Edgar, Salem and
Lucy, and his "Little Girl Squirrel", who had gone
before him.
He is survived by his beloved wife of almost 32 years,
Julia C. Rieman, his beloved daughter, Amy Pope and her
husband, Shawn, and their children, Marlena Arroyo,
Paris Pope and Alex Pope, his beloved daughter, Jamie
Rieman and her children, Casey Rieman, Marlena Arroyo,
Devon Edwards, Dante Rieman, Damien Rieman, Donovan
Rieman, Diemetrian ("John John") Smith, Paris Pope, Alex
Pope, Kobi Rieman, and Dominick Phillip Rieman, his
step-children from his first marriage, Mark Davis, Garey
James and Rejina James, his sister, Judy Schroeder and
her husband, Mike, sister, Sharleen Hamilton and her
husband, Dick, aunts, Phyllis White and Juanita ("Neat")
Gerken, his great-aunt Anna Mae Radcliff, numerous
cousins, and his two cats: Smokey Joe ("Bigfoot") and
Michael James ("Mickey Wade").
Memorial donations may be made to Hospice Circle of
Love, 314 South Third, Enid, Oklahoma 73701 or to the
Enid SPCA (a no-kill animal shelter) at:
https://enidspca.org/
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