MABLE JEAN RUDD BULEN

Mable Jean Rudd Bulen, 99, Hobart, Oklahoma passed away on Wednesday, March 30, 2011 in Hobart. She was born February 24, 1912, in Hobart, Kiowa County, Oklahoma to Yancy Clarence and Elizabeth (Standerfer) Rudd.

She graduated from Hobart High School, received her 2-year certificate from Southwestern College in 1930 and started teaching school at Prospect 40. She taught 27 years in Oklahoma including 19 years in Hobart. Mable finished her Master's Degree at the University of Oklahoma in 1952.

Mable moved to California in 1960. Mable married Erwin Daniel Bulen on June 10, 1965 in Winter Haven, California and he preceded her in death on July 4, 2003. She was a member of the Murietta Baptist Church in Murietta, California. She back to Hobart in 2003.

Survivors include four step-children: Mary Lou Ritch, Vista, California; Betty Sue Soito, Chico, California; Bobby Saltus, Lade Lake, Florida; R. David Bulen, Lake Elsinore, California; 7 grandchildren and 4 great-grandchildren.

There are many nieces and nephews, the local nieces are: Wanda Hall and Patsy Goertz, and a nephew, James Rudd all of Hobart, Oklahoma. Other niece and nephews are Rosemary Hargraves, Glendale, Arizona; Dr. William Rudd Vaughan, Houston, Texas; Robert Rudd of Amarillo, Texas; and a host of great and great-great and great-great-great nieces and nephews.

She was the last of twelve children.

She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, Erwin, one step son, Daniel Bulen, five brothers, Clifton, Lloyd, Thomas, Sherman and James and six sisters, Mary, Johnnie, Janie, Nannie Lee, Beulah and Lela.

Funeral Services were 11:00 a.m., Saturday, April 2, 2011 at First Baptist Church, Hobart, Oklahoma. Burial followed in the Hobart Rose Cemetery, Hobart, Oklahoma under the direction of Ray & Martha's Funeral Home of Hobart, Oklahoma.