Rest Haven Cemetery

Sperry, Osage County, Oklahoma

Oran Beama Bunch

© Johnson Funeral Home & Monument Co. Inc. Sperry, OK Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Memorial Services for Oran Beaman Bunch, 89, of Owasso, were held Friday January 23, 2009 in the Rest Haven Cemetery in Sperry, OK. Services were entrusted to Johnson Funeral Home, Sperry.

Oran was born March 8, 1919 in Huntington, Arkansas to Oran Benjamin and Zelda (Petty) Bunch. He passed away January 15, 2009 in Tulsa, OK.

Beaman worked as a mold operator for Of-Mac Industries in Tulsa, OK. He loved buying, repairing and selling antiques. He graduated from Cherokee High School in Turley, OK. Beaman or Bee-man as we lovingly knew him was a very unique individual to say the very least. Beaman was touched by the depression era like most persons in his age group, Beaman could make something out of virtually nothing and to quote our mother, "He could skin a knat for its tallow".

Beaman raised goats, was in the CCCS, the Merchant Marines and had various jobs but he never married until he met our sister Lillian. That is where we met Beaman and came to know him as Bee-man.

Beaman had a genetic eye disease that would eventually take his sight. I had the occasion to ride across town with Bee-man a couple of times and it was worth the price of admission. Beaman's sight was beginning to fail and he had something to say about every driver as he sat up over the steering wheel with his thick glasses and his nose almost on the windshield he would utter oaths such as, "Get Over You Yahoo!!!"

Beaman's sight finally failed but if failed to stop Beaman. His attitude never changed, He never complained, but when he was working on something he would definetly invent new words loud and clear. I recall one time when I was installing a window air conditioner in Beaman's home and I asked Beaman if he had a board approximately one inch by six inches by six feet. Beaman told me he believed he did and disappeared. After five or ten minutes I went into the garage to see if he found the board and he was decending from the loft in the garage with the board. I learned that Beaman was a very honest and trust worthy person and he lived by a strict code of ethics.

I had a clock I wanted restored and I asked Beaman to look at it form me. Beaman couldn't fix the clock and gave it to a person he thought he knew, to fix it. The man kept the clock and Beaman was very upset. In a week or two Beaman called me and when I came over to his house he gave me a clock out of his own collection which I still have and it never misses a lick. One Saturday morning Gayle and I were visiting Lillian and Beaman when Beaman became frustrated and was uttering some of his famour oaths. Gayle said, "Now Beman: Don't get your panties in a wad", I'll get it straight and Beaman let the moment go. In about five minutes Beaman started up again and Lillian exclaimed, "Now Beanie, don't get your panties in a wad!"To which Beaman said, "These Yahoos Need To Get This Right!" This code that Beaman lived by never faltered, never changed in the forty years I knew him but his devout love for our sister, Lillian was the thing that stood out the most.

Gayle and I loved to record music and give it to Lillian and Beaman when we visited them on Saturday's. On a particular Saturday morning we had recorded some western waltz music and when we played the music we received an invaluable treat!! Beaman and Lillian waltzing gracefully around the living room holding each other so tight underneath the ceiling light undaunted by obstacles in a world all their own for the moment. To see them both, Lillian with her broken but healed hip, in her jammies and Beaman blind with his sent body from the effects of arthritis, in his jammies. There was no pain, no stumbling, only the smooth and gracefully action of a love made in heaven as they waltzed around the room. One would have thought they were in a ballroom with gown and tux and in their world they were. And so it was to the very end of life as we know it: two people Lillian and Beaman so very much in love from their meeting until the very end and now together for evermore.

He is survived by his; children, James Arthur Holman, Walter Daniel Holman and Timothy Campbell; sisters, Mary Ruth Bunch, Ruth Bunch, Mildren Dixon; brother, E.L. Hall Jr.; nephew, Adolph Edwin Leutsch, nieces Joan Langen and Sue Brown.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Thelma Lillian Bunch; parents, Oran and Zelda Bunch; daughter, Sharon Kay Holman; sister, Lois Sheldon.

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