Ulysses Erwin Tucker

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"Ulysses E. 'Ulis' Tucker, Sr.
1912-2003
Funeral services for Ulysses E. 'Ulis' Tucker, Sr., 91, Welda, KS, are Wednesday, June 25, 2003, at 10:30 a.m. at Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel, Garnett, with Mr. Tucker's brother, Rev. Raymond Tucker, officiating. Interment is in Welda Cemetery. Mr. Tucker died Tuesday, June 17, at his home.
Ulysses E. Tucker was born February 1, 1912, at Taft, MO, the oldest of thirteen children born to Edward Ethel and Anne (Lynn) Tucker.
After graduating from high school in Burlington, CO, in 1931, Ulis was united in marriage to Alice Louise Curry on August 25, 1932, at Kansas City, KS. This union was blessed with two children. Ulis owned several businesses throughout his life, including a retail and auction business. He was also a sewer contractor, a real estate broker, and was a truck farmer, who was also engaged in other types of farming. He worked at the Anderson County Sale Barn for twenty years weighing cattle, where he enjoyed visiting with his friends and neighbors every week. He loved fishing, hunting, music, and singing, and his grandchildren. Ulis was compassionate, always loved to give and would help anyone in need. He never failed to tell his family how proud he was of them and how lucky he was to live long enough to know his great-grandchildren. In his later
years, he performed at several local country music shows.
He moved to Welda in 1970 from Weaubleau, MO, where he had lived since 1965. Prior to that he had lived in Overland Park and the Kansas City area for twenty years.
Mr. Tucker was preceded in death by his wife, Alice Louise (Curry) Tucker, on December 14, 1999; his parents, Edward Ethel and Ann (Lynn) Tucker; one granddaughter, Laura Lea Crider; one great-granddaughter, Lauren Nicole Winters; a great-great-granddaughter, Amber Nicole Miller Evans; two sisters, Darlene Semans and Hazel Hisel; a brother, Leroy Tucker; three infant sisters and one infant brother.
Ulis is survived by his daughter, Doris Louise Bunch and her husband, James L., Mound City, KS; his son, Ulis Erwin Tucker, Jr. and his wife, Joy, Welda, KS; five brothers, Richard Tucker, California, Raymond Tucker, Oregon, Albert Tucker, Weaubleau, MO, Bob Tucker, Boise, ID, and William Tucker, Los Angeles, CA. In addition to raising their two children, Ulis and Alice raised three grandchildren James Erwin Crider, Garnett, Marla Jean Drais, Salt Lake City, UT, and Jessica Louise Phifer, Jefferson City, MO, who survive him, as well as eight other grandchildren, twenty-six great-grandchildren, and sixteen great-great-grandchildren.
The family received friends on Tuesday, June 24, from 7:00-8:00 p.m. at the funeral home. Memorial contributions may be made to Midland Hospice, Ottawa, KS, which may be left in care of the funeral home.
Farris-Feuerborn Memorial Chapel is in charge of arrangements."

Ulysses married Alice Louise Curry on 25 Aug 1932 in Kansas City, Wyandotte Co, Kansas, USA. Alice (daughter of Claude Vern Curry and Mary Alice Wilson) was born on 12 Aug 1916 in Council Bluffs, Pottawattamie Co, Iowa, USA; died on 14 Dec 1999 in Iola, Allen Co, Kansas, USA. [Group Sheet]