Cullens, Fred F.
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Fred F. Cullens

Surnames:
CULLENS
DOUTHITT
FISHER
POWELL
HEMBREE
SUBET
HALL
TURNER
JACKSON
PLANAT
RICE

        Waurika: Fred F. Cullens, 80, of Waurika, died Tuesday, July 31, in a Waurika Hospital after a long illness. Service was to be at 11 a.m. today in the Waurika Assembly of God Church with the Rev. John Douthitt Jr. of Duncan officiating, assisted by the Rev. Cedric Fisher of Waurika. Burial will be in the Waurika Perpetual Care Cemetery under the direction of the Willis C. Worley and Sons Funeral Home.

        Cullens was born Sept. 9, 1903, in Waco, Texas, and moved to California as a young man. He had been a baker for more than 60 years, starting at age 17 in San Antonio, Texas. He later became a partner with Gene Powell in a bakery at Weatherford, and owned bakeries in Duncan, Clinton and Fredderick. He owned Grandma's Donuts in Waurika for five years before his retirement in 1981. He married Lovis Hembree in Oklahoma City, Nov. 9, 1933.

        Survivors include his wife, of the home, a son, Dr. Fred D. Cullens of Quannah, Texas, two sisters, Elva Subet and Elizabeth Hall, both of Louisbille, Miss., and two grandsons.

        Bearers were to be Tom Douthitt, Lloyd Turner, Ray Jackson, Dail Plant, Henry Plant and Kenneth Rice. Honorary bearers will be men of the Waurika Assembly of God Church.

Cause of Death: Cancer of Thyroid Gland, widely disseminated.

Submitted by Dale Standifer

 

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