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Mrs. Tullous dies Sun. after a long illness
Family Is One of the Earliest Day Families in Community. Three Sons and Daughter Survive.
Mrs Altha Sarah Tullous, wife of Leonard Tullous died at the family home nine and a half miles west of Marlow Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock following an illness of four years. She was 67 years, 6 months and 15 days old at the time of her death. She was born Feb. 22 1874 in Des Moines, Iowa.
On Dec. 10, 1891,she was married to Leonard Tullous at Guthrie. To this union were born four children who with their father survive.
The three sons are Dee, Goal, and arthur all of a Marlow address and a daughter, Mrs. Ethelyn Griffin of Amarillo, Texas.
Mr. and Mrs. Tullous moved to their present home west of Marlow 46 years ago in the year of 1895 and have become widely known and highly respected citizens of the community.
Besides her husband and children, Mrs. Tullous is survived by seven grandchildren and four brothers and three sisters. Her brothers Will Wolf, Tom Wolf, and Martin Wolf, all of Marshall and Ben Wolf of Kilgore, Texas and her sisters, Mrs. Omega Murphy of Pawhuska, Mrs. Myrtle Holding of Marshall, and Mrs. Maud Rhodes of Waco, Texas were all here for the funeral services.
Services were held at 3 o'clock Tuesday afternoon at the First Methodist Church conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Nuell C. Crain assisted by the Rev. E.L.Spann, pastor of the Bethel Methodist Church. Pall bearers were Clifford Nunley, Alfred and Melford Brown, Clifford Bowen, Berlyne Thomasson, Jim Peterson, Walter Kellian and Jake Roberson.
A men's quartet composed of Russell Brown, H. W. Cato, J. W. Armstrong and W. T. Zachary sang three numbers, "Never Grow Old", "Father Along", and "One Sweetly Solemn Thought". The accompaniment was played by Mrs. Ray Cox.
Burial was in a Lawton Cemetery. Arrangements were in charge of the Steele Funeral Home.
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