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© Henninger Allen Funeral Home Garfield County, OK November 4, 1974 March 14, 1908 ~ November 2, 1974 Furman H. Fullingim was born on 14 March 1908, the first of five children born to John Wade and Myrtle Alice [Lowe] Fullingim. Wade and Myrtle were living in a log cabin nine miles west of Ada, Oklahoma, near Big Sandy Creek when Furman was born. Furman completed only an eighth grade education, and in the process he attended six different schools due to the combination of hard economic times and his father's misuse of alcohol that necessitated keeping the family on the move. The family attended the Carwile Wesleyan Methodist Church, which was centrally located in this rural community of German farmers. On November 26, 1939, he married one of the Frickel girls, Irma Stella Frickel. The marriage was performed in Ponca City, Oklahoma, by Furman's uncle, the Rev John Bond, who was the husband of Frances Delitha Fullingim. Their marriage was witnessed by two of Furman's first cousins, Opal Bond and Syble Bond. Shortly after their marriage Furman and Irma moved from the Frickel homestead to Enid, Oklahoma where they lived, raised two sons, Dean Roy and John Michael Fullingim Furman was employed by Pillsbury Mills for the first few years in Enid, then the Frisco Railroad hired him to work as a switchman and then as a brakeman from 1944 until his retirement on November 16, 1973. Because Furman had moved so many times during his own childhood, he refused to moved the family to Tulsa so that he might continue his work in the Roundhouse, preferring instead to stay on in Enid to provide a more stable homelife, even though it meant that he would be "on the road" frequently working as a brakeman for freight trains, running either from Enid east to Tulsa, Oklahoma, or else from Enid south to Snyder, Oklahoma. He was a member of the First Wesleyan Methodist Church and the Berean Sunday School Class. Furman had a keen sense of humor and never met a stranger. He was quite adept with his hands and had a good mind though he had never received much formal education. He was kind-hearted to neighbors, especially to elderly widows who had difficulty in keeping their lawns mowed. He expected his sons to mow those yards for no pay; he provided the law mower and edger and the petrol, and the "volunteer" labor, especially when he was frequently out of town on his railroad runs. After a year-long bout with carcinoma of the colon and eventual renal failure, Furman died on Saturday, November 2, 1974, at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma, at age sixty-six. He was preceded in death by his father, John Wade Fullingim, and a brother, A.L. Fullingim, who was killed in action during World War II in the Battle of Kula Gulf, Solomon Islands. Survivors included his wife Irma of the home at 1514 E. Maine; two sons, Dean and Michael and two grandchildren; his mother, Mrs Myrtle Fullingim, a brother Paul Fullingim and two sisters, Mrs Floyd [Irene] McDonald and Mrs E. L. [Marie] Leatherwood, all of Oklahoma City. Funeral services for Furman H. Fullingim, 66, were conducted at 2 p.m. Tuesday November 5, 1974 in the First Wesleyan Church with the Rev Max A. Colaw officiating and pastor, Rev Armon Newborn, Assembly of God-Tulsa, assisting. Interment was in the Memorial Park Cemetery, Enid, OK, under the direction of the Henninger-Allen Funeral home. Memorials were made to the First Wesleyan Church of Enid, with the church or the funeral home as custodian. |
© Enid News and Eagle Enid, Oklahoma December 31, 1993 January 4, 1913 ~ December 28, 1993 Irma was born in a log home in the sandy hills north and west of Ringwood, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma, on January 4, 1913 to Michael & Priscilla B. [Diller] Frickel. She and her five sisters and one brother were raised on the 160-acre homestead that her parents farmed successfully, enduring and overcoming the many hardships of pioneer life in the Cherokee Strip. The homestead was located in the NW quarter of Section 2, Township 23 North, Range 10 West of Indian Meridian. Irma attended elementary school in a one-room schoolhouse near the home place, but she attended high school in Ringwood. After completing only through grade eleven of high school she worked domestically on various farms in the Ringwood area and for Roy and Louise Bickford of Helena. Her family attended the Carwile Wesleyan Methodist Church, NW of Ringwood, and this is where she met her husband, Furman H. Fullingim. She and Furman were married 26 Nov 1939 in Ponca City, OK, where Furman's Uncle John Bond performed the marriage. After their marriage they moved to Enid, Oklahoma, where her husband was employed by the Frisco Railroad until his retirement, and she herself worked for Newman's Department Store for ten years. While raising her own family of two sons, Irma was always an active participant and member of The First Wesleyan Methodist Church of Enid. Her older son now resides in Skiatook, Oklahoma, and her younger son in Bartlesville. Irma has four grandchildren. Irma has always enjoyed reading and memorizing The Bible, and in times past her hobbies included quilting and also crocheting doilies. In recent years, however, her hobby has turned to crocheting afghans, and she has graciously shared her colorful creations with many people. Irma died at the age of 80 on December 28, 1993 in the hospital at Bartlesville, OK. For the last six years she had been residing at the Heritage Villa Nursing Center in Bartlesville. Services were set for 11:00 am on Friday, December 31, at the Cedar Ridge Wesleyan Church of Enid, Oklahoma, under the direction of Henninger-Allen Funeral Home. Irma was survived by her two sons, Dr and Mrs Dean Fullingim, and Dr and Mrs Mike Fullingim, four grandchildren, Kurtis and Kimberly Fullingim, and Jeremy and Krisitina Fullingim, one sister, Mrs Myrtle Ensminger of Seattle, Washington, and a host of nieces and nephews. |
© Enid News and Eagle Enid, Oklahoma November 20, 1973 November 8, 1973 ~ November 8, 1973 Kay Lou was the first child born to Rev J. Michael and Barbara [Matt] Fullingim. Though carried to full term, she was stillborn due to complications caused by hydrocephalism. This condition was discovered only three hours before her birth. Her heartbeat stopped approximately twenty minutes prior to her delivery. A graveside service was conducted on November 20, 1973, at the Enid, OK Memorial Cemetery, with the Rev Joe Matt of Austin, MN, the maternal grandfather of the infant, and the Rev Charles B. Colaw, District Superintendent of the Tri-State District of The Wesleyan Church, officiating at the memorial service, under the auspices of the Henninger-Allen Funeral Home of Enid, Oklahoma. She was interred in a family space where just one year later her paternal grandfather, Furman H. Fullingim, 66, would be buried in a contiguous space. |
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