Obit of Bullard, Clyde Francis - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 26 Aug 2007 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Rosemound Cemetery--Medford OK Rush Springs Gazette 23 Aug 2007 Clyde Francis Bullard Memorial service for Clyde Francis Bullard, 91, of Medford was held 10 a.m., Tuesday, August 21, 2007 in the Hills-Ely Funeral Home Chapel, Medford. Burial was in Rosemound Cemetery, Medford. Clyde Francis Bullard, former owner and publisher of newspapers in Oklahoma and Kansas died August 17, 2007 at his home in Enid. Clyde and Stella Bullard purchaed the Rush Springs Gazette in 1946, spending 14 years publishing the newspaper. Clyde was born October 15, 1915 in Tularosa, NM to Noah and Clara Bullard. He attended elementary and high school in Medford, OK. After graduating high school he served two years in the Civilian Conservation Corps in Perry and Ponca City. Clyde graduated from Northern Jr. College in 1937 and from Northwester State Teachers College in Alva in 1940. He taught school for one year and then joined Beech Aircraft in Wichita in 1942. On March 26, 1942 he married Stella Irene Lansdown in Alva, Clyde and Stella joined Globe Aircraft Corporation and in 1943 moved to Fort Worth, Texas. In 1944 they moved to Hawaii where Clyde was a chief aircraft inspector and Stella installed radios in bombers at Hickam Field in Honolulu. At the end of the war, they returned to Oklahoma where they purchased the Rush Springs Gazette in partnership with Loren Rosebery. In 1949, their son Joe Howard was born. In 1960 Clyde and Stella purchased the Ellis Review in Ellis, Kan. They returned to Medford in 1970 where they bought the Medford Patriot Star and Grant County Journal. Later they also owned the Pond Creek Herald. Clyde sold the newspapers in 1980 and he and Stella retired to spend summers at their cabin in Del Norte, Colo. In 2004 they moved to the Golden Oaks Retirement Center in Enid. Clyde is survived by his wife Stella of Enid; his son Joe and wife Diane, and granddaughter Emily of Lakewood, Colo. Clyde was preceded in death by his parents; two brother, Howard and Everett; and three sisers, Eval Gill, Polly Bullard and Amy Hausman. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html