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Beulah Nadine (Longfellow) & Aaron Sonborger "Ed"
Atherton
Tombstone Photo
Rose Hill Memorial Park
Tulsa, Tulsa County, Oklahoma
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Obits & Photos posted by
Don Longfellow
Oct 16, 1905 - May 26, 1997
Aaron Sornborger Atherton is my uncle. He was married to
Beulah
Nadine Longfellow who was a sister to my father,
Donald
Marvin Longfellow.
Note: Don Longfellow
Aaron
"Ed" Sornborger Atherton was
born 18 October 1905 in Tonkawa (Kay County), Oklahoma to Aaron Edwin Atherton
and Cora Adele (Sornborger) Atherton. He died 21 May 1997 in Tulsa (Tulsa
County), Oklahoma. He was 91 years old.
Ed's parents moved throughout Oklahoma as his father purchased and sold grain
products. The family finally settled in Crescent (Caddo County), Oklahoma. Ed
graduated from Crescent High School in 1923.
Ed married
Beulah
Nadine Longfellow
on 01 June 1930 in Anadarko (Caddo County), Oklahoma.
Ed established a career in publishing and worked for the Tulsa World newspaper
till his retirement. He was a member of the Tulsa Typrgraphical Union Local 403.
He was also a 32nd degree Mason and a member of the Grand York Rite Bodies and
Wagoner Lodge. He was also a member of the Friendship Chapter 492, Order of the
Eastern Star as Worthy Patron with his wife Beulah as Matron.
He is survived by his wife, Beulah; two sons, James Atherton (Coffeyville,
Kansas) and John Atherton (Tulsa); one daughter, Priscilla Langenderfer (Tulsa).
Obituary created by Don Longfellow (nephew)
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Obit for Beulah posted by Don Longfellow
May 1, 1906 - Apr 8, 1999
Beulah Nadine (Longfellow) Atherton,
was born in Pawnee City, (Pawnee County), Nebraska on 01 May 1906 to
James
Warren Longfellow
and
Nellie
Pearl (Shoup) Longfellow.
She
died in Tulsa (Tulsa County), Oklahoma on 08 April 1999. She was 92 years old.
Beulah's parents moved to Hobart (Kiowa County), Oklahoma before statehood. She
graduated from Hobart High School in 1924. After graduating from High School she
started attended the University of Oklahoma and earned her degree in Education
in 1932. She continued her education and earned a Master's Degree from the
University of Tulsa in 1957.
She married
Aaron
"Ed" Sornborger Atherton on 01
June 1930 in Anadarko (Caddo County), Oklahoma.
Beulah taught school for 27 years before retiring as a first-grade teacher at
Longfellow Elementary School in 1969. After retirement Beulah served as
Secretary-Treasurer of the Women's International Auxiliaries to the
International Typographical Union. She and Aaron built their retirement home at
Poindexter Club in Snug Harbor on Lake Fort Gibson. While in Wagoner, Beulah was
known as a world-class knitter and garnered many blue ribbons in the Tulsa State
Fairs and Wagoner County Fairs, and was named Woman of the Year in 1986.
Declining health prompted a move to Woodland Terrace in Tulsa, OK in 1994, and
after the death of her husband, Beulah lived in her daughter's home in Tulsa.
Beulah was preceded in death by Aaron, her husband of almost 67 years.
She was preceded in death by her parents, James and Nellie (Shoup) Longfellow,
two brothers, Marion Longfellow and Donald Longfellow; a sister, Zedda
(Longfellow) Quattelbaum; and one half-brother, Johnny Longfellow.
Beulah is survived by two sons; James (Colleyville, Kansas) and John (Tulsa);
one daughter, Priscilla Langenderfer, (Tulsa); and several grandchildren.
Obituary composed by Don Longfellow --
nephew.
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