Rogers Co. Obit for: Melven (Paullus) Hendricks ************************************************************************ http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogers/rogers.htm Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives Date: 7/01/2002 by: Bill Cook, wcook14024@aol.com ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net ************************************************************************ 6/12/2002 Melven Hendricks Funeral for Melven Tempa Paullus Hendricks will be 11 a.m., Thursday, June 13, 2002, at First Baptist Church, Talala, with Rev. Lester Orwig officiating. Burial will follow at Talala Fairview Cemetery, under the direction of Musgrove-Merriott-Smith Funeral Service, Claremore. Visitation will be 1-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home. Melven died Tuesday morning, June 11, at Sequoyah Pointe Living Center, Owasso. The daughter of James Elexander and Dora Ethel McCurry Bray Paullus was born May 4, 1903, in Caney, Kan. Early August of 1903, the family traveled by open wagon and arrived near Talala, Indian Territory and settled close to the Verdigris River. Melven attended school at Sunnyside and graduated from Talala High School. She and Raymond Louis Hendricks were married May 21, 1926. Melven earned her bachelor of science degree at Northeastern State College and her masters in education from Oklahoma State University. Her 40 years of teaching began at High Prairie, a wing school of Talala. She taught at Maple Grove, Harmony Star, Oologah, and Talala in Rogers County, Stevens in Nowata County, Oglesby in Washington County, and retired from Collinsville in 1971. Not only did Melven teach school, she was a great homemaker and mother. She was active in civic, social, fraternal and service organizations. She worked with 4-H clubs, Teen Democrats and Rainbow Girls. She served as Royal High Lady of Kappa Kappa Iota sorority, Worthy High Priestess of the White Shrine of Jerusalem, President of Rogers County Democratic Women, President of Rogers County Retired Teachers, Worthy Matron to the Order of Eastern Stars, President of the American Legion Auxiliary Unit 337, was active in the VFW Auxilliary 2745 and a volunteer at the Claremore Veterans Center. She was preceded in death by her husband, Raymond; son, Joe Ray and his wife, Betty Graves Hendricks; her parents; brothers, Emanuel Clyde, Jim, Joe and Frank Paullus; and sisters: Louethel Paullus, Mary Ketchum, Edith Bryan, Ella Adams and Lola Higeons. She is survived by her daughter, Dortha and husband, Wilbert Cook of Talala; grandchildren, Marilyn Hinkle and husband, Norman, and Rick Cook and wife, Jacalyn, all of Owasso, Connie Chambers and husband, Blake, of Claremore and Kathy Hendricks Jobe and husband, Jerry, of Nowata; great- grandchildren, Hunter and Jon Hinkle, Brandon and Megan Chambers, Jay, Rebecca, and Chris Cook, and Jason and Jennifer Jobe; sisters, Minnie Johnson of Chelsea, and Helen Paullus and Geneva Stroup and husband, Charles of Broken Arrow; sisters-in-law, Tiny Hendricks and Lillian Scroggins of Claremore; and numerous nieces, nephews and friends. ************************************************************************* We thank the Claremore Progess Newspaper for allowing us to post these obits on the Rogers Co., OK USGenwebpages http://www.claremoreprogress.com/ *************************************************************************