Ulah Mae Blackwelder, 81, a lifelong Hooker resident, died Thursday, June 7, 2001 at Memorial Hospital of Texas County in Guymon.
Born Jan. 17, 1920 to Albert and Ida Fox on the family homestead west of Hooker and south of the Old Buffalo School, she was the youngest of four children and is preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, John Fox and Fred Fox; and her sister, Irma Lowry.
After attending the rural Buffalo School under the tutelage of Alma Lea Hartman, who taught them proper tea party manners with a small tea set, Ulah moved into Hooker and graduated as salutatorian of the HHS senior class of 1936 at the age of 16. She then attended Panhandle State University, graduating with a major in English and a minor in home economics.
She gave her heart to Jesus at the age of 19 in a camp meeting while attending college and followed the Lord in baptism. She married her high school sweetheart Aug. 16, 1940 and was a lifelong partner to Lawrence M. Blackwelder, who preceded her in death in 1978.
The couple lived and farmed 2 miles west of Hooker where they raised their family. Ulah Mae raised a garden, chickens, pigeons, and rabbits to feed their family and kept a milk cow until the 1970s. She sewed, painted, canned, preserved, scrapbooked, and helped arrange displays of all her children's show ribbons. She was ever the one to help clean up a calf, show steer, or Landrace Hog and give the finishing touches in their families many endeavors.
Ulah Mae loved animals and nurtured baby kittens, puppies and other critters who'd been orphaned. When visiting their New Mexico cabin, she'd be luring the hummingbirds in, they seemed to know when she arrived, and then she'd be sitting on a stump back of the cabin, conversing with a chipmunk as he ate from her hand. Buying some local blue cornmeal, she'd cook special cornbread for her husband and children to go with their catch of trout.
An active member of the First Baptist Church of Hooker, she worked in missions within her church and the Panhandle Baptist Association. She also taught Sunday School and was a Training Union teacher, WMU Leader and Director through Oklahoma Baptist Statewide Missions. Her greatest gift was that of a prayer warrior, and she maintained a voluminous correspondence with many friends and extended family members. Ulah Mae offered her support to many ministries and missions, and joined in with Range Missionary ladies of Hardesty to make quilts each year for Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. She was a volunteer at the Olive Warner Memorial Library as a Laubach Adult Literacy Advocate, teaching adults to read.
She leaves to celebrate her life, her children, Bruce, Albert, and Gail of Hooker, Oklahoma along with their families, as well as many dear nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Born Jan. 17, 1920 to Albert and Ida Fox on the family homestead west of Hooker and south of the Old Buffalo School, she was the youngest of four children and is preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, John Fox and Fred Fox; and her sister, Irma Lowry.
After attending the rural Buffalo School under the tutelage of Alma Lea Hartman, who taught them proper tea party manners with a small tea set, Ulah moved into Hooker and graduated as salutatorian of the HHS senior class of 1936 at the age of 16. She then attended Panhandle State University, graduating with a major in English and a minor in home economics.
She gave her heart to Jesus at the age of 19 in a camp meeting while attending college and followed the Lord in baptism. She married her high school sweetheart Aug. 16, 1940 and was a lifelong partner to Lawrence M. Blackwelder, who preceded her in death in 1978.
The couple lived and farmed 2 miles west of Hooker where they raised their family. Ulah Mae raised a garden, chickens, pigeons, and rabbits to feed their family and kept a milk cow until the 1970s. She sewed, painted, canned, preserved, scrapbooked, and helped arrange displays of all her children's show ribbons. She was ever the one to help clean up a calf, show steer, or Landrace Hog and give the finishing touches in their families many endeavors.
Ulah Mae loved animals and nurtured baby kittens, puppies and other critters who'd been orphaned. When visiting their New Mexico cabin, she'd be luring the hummingbirds in, they seemed to know when she arrived, and then she'd be sitting on a stump back of the cabin, conversing with a chipmunk as he ate from her hand. Buying some local blue cornmeal, she'd cook special cornbread for her husband and children to go with their catch of trout.
An active member of the First Baptist Church of Hooker, she worked in missions within her church and the Panhandle Baptist Association. She also taught Sunday School and was a Training Union teacher, WMU Leader and Director through Oklahoma Baptist Statewide Missions. Her greatest gift was that of a prayer warrior, and she maintained a voluminous correspondence with many friends and extended family members. Ulah Mae offered her support to many ministries and missions, and joined in with Range Missionary ladies of Hardesty to make quilts each year for Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. She was a volunteer at the Olive Warner Memorial Library as a Laubach Adult Literacy Advocate, teaching adults to read.
She leaves to celebrate her life, her children, Bruce, Albert, and Gail of Hooker, Oklahoma along with their families, as well as many dear nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Ulah Mae Blackwelder, 81, a lifelong Hooker resident, died Thursday, June 7, 2001 at Memorial Hospital of Texas County in Guymon.
Born Jan. 17, 1920 to Albert and Ida Fox on the family homestead west of Hooker and south of the Old Buffalo School, she was the youngest of four children and is preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, John Fox and Fred Fox; and her sister, Irma Lowry.
After attending the rural Buffalo School under the tutelage of Alma Lea Hartman, who taught them proper tea party manners with a small tea set, Ulah moved into Hooker and graduated as salutatorian of the HHS senior class of 1936 at the age of 16. She then attended Panhandle State University, graduating with a major in English and a minor in home economics.
She gave her heart to Jesus at the age of 19 in a camp meeting while attending college and followed the Lord in baptism. She married her high school sweetheart Aug. 16, 1940 and was a lifelong partner to Lawrence M. Blackwelder, who preceded her in death in 1978.
The couple lived and farmed 2 miles west of Hooker where they raised their family. Ulah Mae raised a garden, chickens, pigeons, and rabbits to feed their family and kept a milk cow until the 1970s. She sewed, painted, canned, preserved, scrapbooked, and helped arrange displays of all her children's show ribbons. She was ever the one to help clean up a calf, show steer, or Landrace Hog and give the finishing touches in their families many endeavors.
Ulah Mae loved animals and nurtured baby kittens, puppies and other critters who'd been orphaned. When visiting their New Mexico cabin, she'd be luring the hummingbirds in, they seemed to know when she arrived, and then she'd be sitting on a stump back of the cabin, conversing with a chipmunk as he ate from her hand. Buying some local blue cornmeal, she'd cook special cornbread for her husband and children to go with their catch of trout.
An active member of the First Baptist Church of Hooker, she worked in missions within her church and the Panhandle Baptist Association. She also taught Sunday School and was a Training Union teacher, WMU Leader and Director through Oklahoma Baptist Statewide Missions. Her greatest gift was that of a prayer warrior, and she maintained a voluminous correspondence with many friends and extended family members. Ulah Mae offered her support to many ministries and missions, and joined in with Range Missionary ladies of Hardesty to make quilts each year for Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. She was a volunteer at the Olive Warner Memorial Library as a Laubach Adult Literacy Advocate, teaching adults to read.
She leaves to celebrate her life, her children, Bruce, Albert, and Gail of Hooker, Oklahoma along with their families, as well as many dear nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
Born Jan. 17, 1920 to Albert and Ida Fox on the family homestead west of Hooker and south of the Old Buffalo School, she was the youngest of four children and is preceded in death by her parents; her brothers, John Fox and Fred Fox; and her sister, Irma Lowry.
After attending the rural Buffalo School under the tutelage of Alma Lea Hartman, who taught them proper tea party manners with a small tea set, Ulah moved into Hooker and graduated as salutatorian of the HHS senior class of 1936 at the age of 16. She then attended Panhandle State University, graduating with a major in English and a minor in home economics.
She gave her heart to Jesus at the age of 19 in a camp meeting while attending college and followed the Lord in baptism. She married her high school sweetheart Aug. 16, 1940 and was a lifelong partner to Lawrence M. Blackwelder, who preceded her in death in 1978.
The couple lived and farmed 2 miles west of Hooker where they raised their family. Ulah Mae raised a garden, chickens, pigeons, and rabbits to feed their family and kept a milk cow until the 1970s. She sewed, painted, canned, preserved, scrapbooked, and helped arrange displays of all her children's show ribbons. She was ever the one to help clean up a calf, show steer, or Landrace Hog and give the finishing touches in their families many endeavors.
Ulah Mae loved animals and nurtured baby kittens, puppies and other critters who'd been orphaned. When visiting their New Mexico cabin, she'd be luring the hummingbirds in, they seemed to know when she arrived, and then she'd be sitting on a stump back of the cabin, conversing with a chipmunk as he ate from her hand. Buying some local blue cornmeal, she'd cook special cornbread for her husband and children to go with their catch of trout.
An active member of the First Baptist Church of Hooker, she worked in missions within her church and the Panhandle Baptist Association. She also taught Sunday School and was a Training Union teacher, WMU Leader and Director through Oklahoma Baptist Statewide Missions. Her greatest gift was that of a prayer warrior, and she maintained a voluminous correspondence with many friends and extended family members. Ulah Mae offered her support to many ministries and missions, and joined in with Range Missionary ladies of Hardesty to make quilts each year for Cal Farley's Boys Ranch. She was a volunteer at the Olive Warner Memorial Library as a Laubach Adult Literacy Advocate, teaching adults to read.
She leaves to celebrate her life, her children, Bruce, Albert, and Gail of Hooker, Oklahoma along with their families, as well as many dear nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.
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