Eula Mae Emigh

Eula Mae Emigh passed peacefully from this life and was reunited with her husband on February 12th, 2025, at 98 years of age. She leaves behind six children and dozens of grandchildren and great-grandchildren. One of nearly a dozen children, Eula was born on March 19th, 1926, to Charles and Mary (Shockley) Walker in Picher, Oklahoma and grew up in Tulsa. In 1947 she met her husband of 76 years, Clyde Nelson Emigh, on a blind double-date weenie roast at Chandler Park and the two were wed just two months later, on July 5th in a backyard ceremony. The Emighs briefly lived in Oklahoma City and Coffeyville but settled down in West Tulsa for more than 50 years before her husband passed away in 2024. She spent her last year living with her daughter and caretaker, Brenda, in Sand Springs. Eula dedicated her life to Christ and was baptized in the Holy Spirit at Beams of Light Church in Tulsa. She also attended Home Gardens Assembly of God, Calvary Temple, and Word of Life Fellowship over the years. She could always be counted on to pray for anyone in need. She worked as a deputy county assessor in the late 1940s but was primarily a stay-at-home mother, raising seven kids over the course of nearly four decades. A self-taught seamstress, she made all her children's clothes by hand until they were old enough to buy their own. She was so talented that she could look at an outfit in a store and go home and make it herself. Her talent and creativity also showed in her ceramics and homemade Cabbage Patch Kids, and in her cooking and baking. She frequently donated pies to church auctions and her pecan pies and noodles were the talk of the town. In her later years Eula worked in the fabrics department at TG&Y and at K-Mart and did her best to keep her husband out of trouble. She loved her children and grandchildren fiercely and made sure they knew it. She was always there for anyone in need, no matter what. She never had a negative thing to say about anyone, had a great sense of humor, and always sent you off with a bushel and a peck and a hug around the neck. She was preceded in death by her husband, Clyde; son, David; parents, Charles and Mary; and siblings, Charles, Claude, Roy, Carl, Robert, Mary, and Earline. She is survived by daughter Nina Lewis of Port Orange, Florida; son Clyde Emigh and Dorothy Stice of Tulsa; daughter Janet and George Alphin of Pocahontas, Arkansas; daughter Brenda and Donnie Odle of Sand Springs; son Ralph Emigh and Dianne Culleton of Nowata; and daughter Teresa and Thad Marcum of McAlester, as well as 16 grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren. The funeral service will be held at 1:00 p.m. Monday, February 17th at Moore's Memory Chapel 1403 S. Peoria, Tulsa, followed by a short graveside service at Ridgelawn Cemetery in Collinsville.

Eula Mae Emigh

March 19, 1926 - February 12, 2025