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Carl Ray Thurman
May 3, 1936 - Dec 31, 2016
Posted by: Ann Weber
BARTLESVILLE
EXAMINER-ENTERPRISE
BARTLESVILLE, WASHINGTON CO, OK
(permission granted)
Interment will be in the
Dewey Cemetery where military rites will be
accorded by the James H. Teel American Legion
Post # 105.
Funeral services and interment are
under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home
& Crematory.
Friends who wish may call for visitation at the
Stumpff Funeral Home on Tuesday from 9 A.M.
until 8 P.M.
A memorial has been established in Mr. Thurman's
memory and those who wish may send their
contributions to the Dewey United Methodist
Church, P.O. Box 610, Dewey, Oklahoma, 74029.
Mr. Thurman was born at Webb City, Oklahoma on
May 3, 1936 the son of King David Thurman and
Elsie Cleo (Lockwood) Thurman. He grew up and
received his education at Shidler, Oklahoma
where he graduated from high school in 1954. He
entered the U.S.
Army on October 1, 1954 and served until
receiving his Honorable Discharge on October 1,
1956. He then returned to Shidler, and later
moved to Meade, Kansas and Cushing, Oklahoma
where he was a vending machine service man. He
was married to Carolyn Sue Moore at Meade,
Kansas on July 10, 1959. They came to Dewey to
make their home when Mr. Thurman began his
employment with Reda Pump (which later became
Schlumberger) in 1965. He retired from
Schlumberger as an Assembly One lead man in May
of 1999. Mr. Thurman enjoyed fishing, swimming
and camping at the lake, had been active as a
girl's softball team coach and was on the
softball league's board in Dewey. Mr. Thurman
had volunteered as a docent at Woolaroc, as well
as an usher at the Bartlesville Community Center
and for the OK Mozart Festival and Indian
Summer. He was an active member of the Dewey
United Methodist Church where he had served as a
Sunday School teacher, was youth director for a
number of years and had served in various
positions on the church board.
Mr. Thurman is survived by his wife, Sue Thurman
of the home in Dewey, one daughter, Cindy Archer
and husband Jack of Bartlesville, one son, Clay
Thurman and wife Dawn of Bartlesville, one
sister, Ramona Clanton of El Dorado, Kansas,
five grandchildren, Clinton Archer, Kelsey
Lashley, Bentley Thurman, Amber Kilpatrick and
Emily Lorenz, and five great grandchildren, Gage
O'Brien, Gavin O'Brien, Oliver Thurman, Henry
Thurman and Abel Lorenz.
He was preceded in
death by his parents and one brother, E.M.
Thurman.
Friends who wish may sign the online guest book
and leave condolences at
www.stumpff.org.
Funeral Home
Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory
1600 Southeast Washington Boulevard
Bartlesville, OK 74006
Published in Examiner-Enterprise from Jan. 3 to
Feb. 2, 2017
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