Obit.Tulsa,OK BOTTOM, Earl "Frank"
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Submitted by: Shelley Lynch <leeshlynch@gmail.com> on 10Nov2007

 
BOTTOM - Earl "Frank," 76, died Tuesday, October 30, 2007. He was born July 25, 1931, 
in Hobart, OK, the son of Thurman and Kate Bottom. After attending the University of 
Oklahoma, where he studied voice with the British opera star, Dame Eva Turner, he 
moved to California in the 1950s, living for over three decades in Glendale, Santa 
Barbara, and Los Angeles. During that period, he sang with the Persian Garden Quartet 
and had the leading role of Count Almaviva in a 1967 production of Rossini's "Barber 
of Seville." Frank also co-owned a record store and several commercial properties and 
was a purchasing agent for a PVC manufacturer before moving to Tulsa in 1989, became 
an active volunteer with the Tulsa Opera Guild and serving as its president from 1994-96. 
Frank loved traveling to England, Egypt, and Australia and had a real passion for animals, 
raising pugs for over 40 years and later getting animals from P.A.W.S. He also took great 
joy from sharing one of the largest collections of 78 rpm, LP, and CD operatic recordings 
in the country with friends, whom he invited countless times to his home for evenings of 
selected favorites, providing background and anecdotes to introduce each. Frank is 
survived by: his longtime partner, Phil Beyernheimer; and cousins, Jack Smith of 
Plano, TX, and Jan Polumbus and husband, Michael Lackey, Mark Polumbus and wife, 
Marilyn and 3 children, and Pat Polumbus of Tulsa. Donations are suggested for 
Tulsa Opera. Memorial service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, November 3, 2007 at 
Reynolds Funeral Chapel, Adams Crest Cremation. 
  
Published in the Tulsa World on 11/2/2007.