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LaVerne Tucker will celebrate her 100 th birthday on January 9. She was born in Wheeler, Texas on January 9, 1923, to Claud R and Grace Lee Cox. LaVerne will be honored on January 14, 2023, at 2:00 pm at the Bulo Event Center ( formally Bulo School House). She was the oldest of six children who were raised on a farm east of Wheeler. After graduation from Wheeler High School as a member of the 1940 class, she worked as a telephone operator, housekeeper and at the Wheeler Hospital. She ventured to Amarillo Texas where she worked in an ammunitions plant at PanTex during World War II. She packaged bombs for shipping to the front lines. At the skating rink at the Meridian School House, she met Earl Colbern Tucker. When Earl left for the service he gave LaVerne a promise ring. They corresponded while he was on the front in Italy. He returned home in December of 1945. He always said that when he got back home, he married LaVerne then set his suitcase down. The young couple borrowed a car for their honeymoon. They returned home to the Tucker Farm in Sunny Point, Oklahoma. Farming was a way of life that included cattle, cotton, horses, pigs, chicken, peacocks, wheat, hay gardens, orchards and three kids. She could out pick anyone in the cotton field while one of the kids rode on the cotton sack. LaVerne resides in the house that she moved into as a new bride in 1945. Seventy–five years have been spent making the house a home for them and their three children, Tommy, Earlene, and Danny. The house was built at the turn of the century. Today, LaVerne actively engages in her hobbies of reading, quilting, and crocheting. She is involved with the decisions of the farming and ranching business with her son Tommy and grandson Monte. Looking back on 100 years of living -- so many marvelous innovations have been experienced. Traveling by horse and buggy, Model T to California to visit relatives, train, bus to and from Amarillo, and airplane. Cooking on a wood stove, gas stove, electric stove, and microwave oven. Kerosene lamps to LED lighting. Remembers turning on the first electrical switch. Farming with horses, M Farmall and B John Deere Tractor. Watching her boys farm with large tractors equipped with GPS technology. Living through events such as Dust Bowl Days, Depression, World War II, Korean Conflict, space travel and putting a man on the moon, assassination of Kennedy, Viet Nam, Afghanistan, OKC Murrah Building Bombing, 9-11.
Using the wind charger to charge the battery for the radio to listen to stories and baseball games and now using satellites and Wi-Fi Voted in 15 presidential elections. Turning 21 in 1944 to vote for Franklin Roosevelt LaVerne relates experiences during her lifetime. She remembers Black Sunday of the Dust Bowl Era. The family went to the cellar and feared that the world was coming to an end. A frightening experience for a twelve-year-old girl. She tells about falling asleep while cultivating cotton with a horse and the horse waiting at the end of the row for her to turn him to the next row. She rode a horse to go after the milk cows while Earl was in the field, was thrown from the horse, got back on and made it back to the house. She had broken her back in the fall. Milking cows in the barn that was built in the 1920’s ( still standing today) Using the “smoke house” to cure and store meat. Going to the community quilting bees at the Grimes school house “Fixing” Sunday dinner after attending services at the Buffalo Baptist Church for the Bruner Family. The dinner was fresh fried chicken and all the “fixings” that grew in the garden. Helping serve meals for community gathering at the Sunny Point School House Sewing garments for herself and members of the family, piecing quilts, and patching overalls Being a member of the Buffalo Baptist Church, leading singing for 60 plus years Having the Tucker Home Place declared an Oklahoma Centennial Farm in 2022. Four generations of Tuckers have farmed the 160 acres. Traveling to California to visit relatives in the Model A and telling her Daddy “Go home and go to California tomorrow”
LaVerne’s family, Tommy and Nelda Tucker, Henry Lee Rose, Danny Tucker invite you to the celebration of 100 years on January 14, 2023 at 2:00 at the Bulo Event Center ( formerly the Bulo School House at Henry’s farm) Come celebrate along with her 5 grandchildren: Lisa and Greg Bowman, Monte and Danielle Tucker, Junita and Tuff Powers, Justin Rose, Shane Tucker and her 13 great grandchildren: Tyler Carey, Rayanne Bowman, Cooper and Kory Bowman, Mason Tucker, Reed Tucker, Grant Powers, Guthrie Powers, Kaylyn Rose, Kaycee Rose, Brystol Rose, Danny Shane Tucker, Dane Tucker and Dante Tucker. The Five Generation family is completed by great- great granddaughter Brynlee Carey.
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