Lucy Glee Hooper was the youngest daughter of Dr. Isaac Wayne and Myrtle M.M. (Richey) Hooper, M.D., who had been a frontier Oklahoma doctor before statehood in 1907. She was born in Davis, Oklahoma, on 21 March 1915. Her six older siblings were: Estelle Stucker, Winnie Hooper, Vival Barber, Henry Wade Hooper, Myrtle Belle Wilson, and Richey Lorete.
She met Bill Fullingim when she was a student in the Oklahoma University School of Fine Arts. She was a member of Orchesis, honorary dance fraternity, and had the leading interpretative part in "The Juggler of Notre Dame" dance drama, which was produced annually and televised at Christmas each year for a number of years.
Glee and Bill were married in 1935. During the years 1936 through 1940, Bill and Glee lived in several communities along the Texas Gulf Coast, where Bill worked in the oil fields. Their son, William Embry, was born in 196 at Galveston and their daughter, Patricia Bernayz, was born at Houston in 1939. In 1941, they moved their young family to Washington, D.C., where Bill attended night law school for two years at George Washington College of Law. During this time, Bill work in the office o Congressman Eugene Worley of Pampa, Texas, a friend of Bill's older brother, Archer Fullingim.
During the war years of 1942-46, Bill was production Superintendent at Briggs Filtration Company, a Naval Department defense plant at Bethesda, Maryland, where he was responsible for 300 employees working in shifts on a 24-hour basis. Briggs received the Navy E Award. In 1947, Glee and Bill returned to Texas where Bill went into the oil well servicing business at Odessa. The company grew a truck-unit at a time into an operation that, during the years 1950-1960, employed an average of thirty-five permanent employees.
Besides being a fine mother and homemaker, Glee has been the inspirational force behind her husband. She served as a Sunday School teacher in the First Methodist Church, Odessa, for many years and is a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service. She was Regent of the Nathaniel Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, first President of the Mathew D. Ector Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a member of the 17th Century Colonial Dames of America. Also she was a charter member of the Odessa Jayceettes, a charter member of the Odessa Art Association, and a member of the Odessa Garden Club. Further, she has served on the Ector County Historical Survey Committee since its formation in 1957, was a charter member of the Permian State Historical Society, and was the first woman to be invited to participate in "Civil War Round Table," Odessa. In 1960, Glee was the Chairman of the Ector County Democratic Women for LBJ. Among the civic contributions of which she was most proud are her Odessa Y.W.C.A. service in 1948, being Blue Bird then Brownie Leader for girls and a charter member of DeMolay Mothers Circle, she also has worked with Rainbow Girls. She was a charter member of Chapter 1009, Order of Eastern Star.
Glee died in the morning of January 19, 1993, at Southwest Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She had been born on the first day of Spring, hence, her parents named her Glee. She was a woman whose name said it all.
She met Bill Fullingim when she was a student in the Oklahoma University School of Fine Arts. She was a member of Orchesis, honorary dance fraternity, and had the leading interpretative part in "The Juggler of Notre Dame" dance drama, which was produced annually and televised at Christmas each year for a number of years.
Glee and Bill were married in 1935. During the years 1936 through 1940, Bill and Glee lived in several communities along the Texas Gulf Coast, where Bill worked in the oil fields. Their son, William Embry, was born in 196 at Galveston and their daughter, Patricia Bernayz, was born at Houston in 1939. In 1941, they moved their young family to Washington, D.C., where Bill attended night law school for two years at George Washington College of Law. During this time, Bill work in the office o Congressman Eugene Worley of Pampa, Texas, a friend of Bill's older brother, Archer Fullingim.
During the war years of 1942-46, Bill was production Superintendent at Briggs Filtration Company, a Naval Department defense plant at Bethesda, Maryland, where he was responsible for 300 employees working in shifts on a 24-hour basis. Briggs received the Navy E Award. In 1947, Glee and Bill returned to Texas where Bill went into the oil well servicing business at Odessa. The company grew a truck-unit at a time into an operation that, during the years 1950-1960, employed an average of thirty-five permanent employees.
Besides being a fine mother and homemaker, Glee has been the inspirational force behind her husband. She served as a Sunday School teacher in the First Methodist Church, Odessa, for many years and is a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service. She was Regent of the Nathaniel Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, first President of the Mathew D. Ector Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a member of the 17th Century Colonial Dames of America. Also she was a charter member of the Odessa Jayceettes, a charter member of the Odessa Art Association, and a member of the Odessa Garden Club. Further, she has served on the Ector County Historical Survey Committee since its formation in 1957, was a charter member of the Permian State Historical Society, and was the first woman to be invited to participate in "Civil War Round Table," Odessa. In 1960, Glee was the Chairman of the Ector County Democratic Women for LBJ. Among the civic contributions of which she was most proud are her Odessa Y.W.C.A. service in 1948, being Blue Bird then Brownie Leader for girls and a charter member of DeMolay Mothers Circle, she also has worked with Rainbow Girls. She was a charter member of Chapter 1009, Order of Eastern Star.
Glee died in the morning of January 19, 1993, at Southwest Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She had been born on the first day of Spring, hence, her parents named her Glee. She was a woman whose name said it all.
Lucy Glee Hooper was the youngest daughter of Dr. Isaac Wayne and Myrtle M.M. (Richey) Hooper, M.D., who had been a frontier Oklahoma doctor before statehood in 1907. She was born in Davis, Oklahoma, on 21 March 1915. Her six older siblings were: Estelle Stucker, Winnie Hooper, Vival Barber, Henry Wade Hooper, Myrtle Belle Wilson, and Richey Lorete.
She met Bill Fullingim when she was a student in the Oklahoma University School of Fine Arts. She was a member of Orchesis, honorary dance fraternity, and had the leading interpretative part in "The Juggler of Notre Dame" dance drama, which was produced annually and televised at Christmas each year for a number of years.
Glee and Bill were married in 1935. During the years 1936 through 1940, Bill and Glee lived in several communities along the Texas Gulf Coast, where Bill worked in the oil fields. Their son, William Embry, was born in 196 at Galveston and their daughter, Patricia Bernayz, was born at Houston in 1939. In 1941, they moved their young family to Washington, D.C., where Bill attended night law school for two years at George Washington College of Law. During this time, Bill work in the office o Congressman Eugene Worley of Pampa, Texas, a friend of Bill's older brother, Archer Fullingim.
During the war years of 1942-46, Bill was production Superintendent at Briggs Filtration Company, a Naval Department defense plant at Bethesda, Maryland, where he was responsible for 300 employees working in shifts on a 24-hour basis. Briggs received the Navy E Award. In 1947, Glee and Bill returned to Texas where Bill went into the oil well servicing business at Odessa. The company grew a truck-unit at a time into an operation that, during the years 1950-1960, employed an average of thirty-five permanent employees.
Besides being a fine mother and homemaker, Glee has been the inspirational force behind her husband. She served as a Sunday School teacher in the First Methodist Church, Odessa, for many years and is a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service. She was Regent of the Nathaniel Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, first President of the Mathew D. Ector Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a member of the 17th Century Colonial Dames of America. Also she was a charter member of the Odessa Jayceettes, a charter member of the Odessa Art Association, and a member of the Odessa Garden Club. Further, she has served on the Ector County Historical Survey Committee since its formation in 1957, was a charter member of the Permian State Historical Society, and was the first woman to be invited to participate in "Civil War Round Table," Odessa. In 1960, Glee was the Chairman of the Ector County Democratic Women for LBJ. Among the civic contributions of which she was most proud are her Odessa Y.W.C.A. service in 1948, being Blue Bird then Brownie Leader for girls and a charter member of DeMolay Mothers Circle, she also has worked with Rainbow Girls. She was a charter member of Chapter 1009, Order of Eastern Star.
Glee died in the morning of January 19, 1993, at Southwest Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She had been born on the first day of Spring, hence, her parents named her Glee. She was a woman whose name said it all.
She met Bill Fullingim when she was a student in the Oklahoma University School of Fine Arts. She was a member of Orchesis, honorary dance fraternity, and had the leading interpretative part in "The Juggler of Notre Dame" dance drama, which was produced annually and televised at Christmas each year for a number of years.
Glee and Bill were married in 1935. During the years 1936 through 1940, Bill and Glee lived in several communities along the Texas Gulf Coast, where Bill worked in the oil fields. Their son, William Embry, was born in 196 at Galveston and their daughter, Patricia Bernayz, was born at Houston in 1939. In 1941, they moved their young family to Washington, D.C., where Bill attended night law school for two years at George Washington College of Law. During this time, Bill work in the office o Congressman Eugene Worley of Pampa, Texas, a friend of Bill's older brother, Archer Fullingim.
During the war years of 1942-46, Bill was production Superintendent at Briggs Filtration Company, a Naval Department defense plant at Bethesda, Maryland, where he was responsible for 300 employees working in shifts on a 24-hour basis. Briggs received the Navy E Award. In 1947, Glee and Bill returned to Texas where Bill went into the oil well servicing business at Odessa. The company grew a truck-unit at a time into an operation that, during the years 1950-1960, employed an average of thirty-five permanent employees.
Besides being a fine mother and homemaker, Glee has been the inspirational force behind her husband. She served as a Sunday School teacher in the First Methodist Church, Odessa, for many years and is a member of the Women's Society of Christian Service. She was Regent of the Nathaniel Davis Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, first President of the Mathew D. Ector Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and a member of the 17th Century Colonial Dames of America. Also she was a charter member of the Odessa Jayceettes, a charter member of the Odessa Art Association, and a member of the Odessa Garden Club. Further, she has served on the Ector County Historical Survey Committee since its formation in 1957, was a charter member of the Permian State Historical Society, and was the first woman to be invited to participate in "Civil War Round Table," Odessa. In 1960, Glee was the Chairman of the Ector County Democratic Women for LBJ. Among the civic contributions of which she was most proud are her Odessa Y.W.C.A. service in 1948, being Blue Bird then Brownie Leader for girls and a charter member of DeMolay Mothers Circle, she also has worked with Rainbow Girls. She was a charter member of Chapter 1009, Order of Eastern Star.
Glee died in the morning of January 19, 1993, at Southwest Methodist Hospital in San Antonio, Texas. She had been born on the first day of Spring, hence, her parents named her Glee. She was a woman whose name said it all.
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