Hulsey, Robert "Harold"

315 North Cherry, Commerce Oklahoma, died at 10:55 am Thursday, Jan 14, 1999, at Freeman Hospital East in Joplin Missouri, after an illness. He was 80. Mr. Hulsey was born Aug 12, 1918, at Webb City Missouri, to Newton Crow Hulsey and Anna May Matthews Hulsey. He had lived in Commerce most of his life. He worked in the mills at the Picher mining fields until 1957, and later worked as a bus driver at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College until 1990. He was a member of the first Christian Church in Cardin Oklahoma and was a member and past noble grand of IOOF Lodge No. 63 in Miami and was an associate member and past noble grand of IOOF Lodge No. 41 in Fairland. He was past district deputy grand master of the IOOF Grand Lodge and past chaplain of the IOOF Grand Lodge of Oklahoma. He was also a member and past chief patriot of the Grand Lake Encampment. He was a member of Commerce Lodge No. 493 AF&AM and the Tulsa Scottish Rite consistory, where he was a 32nd degree mason. Mr. Hulsey worked as a volunteer for the Picher Oklahoma Mining Field Museum. He married Alice I. Clark on May 25, 1940 at Joplin Missouri. She survives, of the home. Additional survivors include three sons and their wives, Donald Hulsey and Sharon Hulsey, Lake Lotwana Missouri, Gene Hulsey and Kathy Hulsey, Commerce, and Ervin Hulvey and Carla Hulsey, Tahlequah Oklahoma; two daughters, Linda Madison, Tulsa Oklahoma and Janice Riggs and Jon Riggs, Owasso Oklahoma; a brother, Clyde Hulsey, Imperial California; four sisters, Betty Ellison and Shirley Heller, both of Grove Oklahoma, Helen Thompson, Brawley California, and Ann Farley, Salem Oregon; 12 grandchildren and four great- grandchildren. The service will be Saturday, at 10 am at the first Christian Church in Cardin with Bill Richey, minister, officiating. Burial will be in G.A.R. cemetery, Miami, under the direction of the Paul Thomas funeral home of Miami. Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. The family will receive friends tonight from 7 to 8 pm at the funeral home. Memorials are suggested to the American Cancer Society or the Cardin Christian Church.