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Beulah Nadine (Longfellow) & Aaron Sonborger "Ed" Atherton
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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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