Carl Ray Thurman

Mr. Carl Ray Thurman, 80, of Dewey, died at 1:05 A.M. on Saturday, December 31, 2016 at the St. John Medical Center in Tulsa. Funeral services for Mr. Thurman will be held at 1 P.M. on Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at the Dewey United Methodist Church with Rev. Dale Durnell officiating. Interment will be in the Dewey Cemetery where military rites will be accorded by the James H. Teel American Legion Post # 105. Funeral services and interment are under the direction of the Stumpff Funeral Home & Crematory. Friends who wish may call for visitation at the Stumpff Funeral Home on Tuesday from 9 A.M. until 8 P.M. A memorial has been established in Mr. Thurman’s memory and those who wish may send their contributions to the Dewey United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 610, Dewey, Oklahoma, 74029. Mr. Thurman was born at Webb City, Oklahoma on May 3, 1936 the son of King David Thurman and Elsie Cleo (Lockwood) Thurman. He grew up and received his education at Shidler, Oklahoma where he graduated from high school in 1954. He entered the U.S. Army on October 1, 1954 and served until receiving his Honorable Discharge on October 1, 1956. He then returned to Shidler, and later moved to Meade, Kansas and Cushing, Oklahoma where he was a vending machine service man. He was married to Carolyn Sue Moore at Meade, Kansas on July 10, 1959. They came to Dewey to make their home when Mr. Thurman began his employment with Reda Pump (which later became Schlumberger) in 1965. He retired from Schlumberger as an Assembly One lead man in May of 1999. Mr. Thurman enjoyed fishing, swimming and camping at the lake, had been active as a girl’s softball team coach and was on the softball league’s board in Dewey. Mr. Thurman had volunteered as a docent at Woolaroc, as well as an usher at the Bartlesville Community Center and for the OK Mozart Festival and Indian Summer. He was an active member of the Dewey United Methodist Church where he had served as a Sunday School teacher, was youth director for a number of years and had served in various positions on the church board. Mr. Thurman is survived by his wife, Sue Thurman of the home in Dewey, one daughter, Cindy Archer and husband Jack of Bartlesville, one son, Clay Thurman and wife Dawn of Bartlesville, one sister, Ramona Clanton of El Dorado, Kansas, five grandchildren, Clinton Archer, Kelsey Lashley, Bentley Thurman, Amber Kilpatrick and Emily Lorenz, and five great grandchildren, Gage O’Brien, Gavin O’Brien, Oliver Thurman, Henry Thurman and Abel Lorenz. He was preceded in death by his parents and one brother, E.M. Thurman.

Carl Ray Thurman

May 3, 1936 - December 31, 2016