2005-07-19
Collection: 2005
Title
2005-07-19
Subject
Mullin, Alvin Elwood Jr.
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2005-07-21
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Identifier
b10#83 2005
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2005-07-19,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/1573.
Text
Alvin Elwood ‘Moon’ Mullin
Alvin Elwood “Moon” Mullin, 88, Augusta, left this world to go with the Lord on Tuesday, July 19, 2005.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, at Hillside Funeral Home in Augusta.
Alvin Elwood Mullin was born Feb. 10, 1917, in a tent, under an old oak tree at the end of Osage street, Augusta, close to the old Walnut River Bridge. (The bridge has been gone for many years. There was a tent city at this time, due to the oil discoveries in the Augusta area.) He was born to Naomi Ruth Hale and Josiah Burton Mullin.
His mother divorced his father when he was four years of age. Shortly after the divorce she put his meager clothes in a pillowslip and set him out on the porch, telling him she did not want him.
His father came and took Alvin with him. He was shifted from pillar to post for many years. His father was a farm hand and had to work hard and long days. Alvin started doing a man’s work by the time he was seven years old. He had to stand on the mangers to harness the big Percheron horses he drove in the fields.
His Aunt Jane and Uncle Mike Underwood helped raise him.
There used to be an old cartoon character named Moon Mullins. Adults got to calling Alvin “Moon” and the name stuck. To this day most people know him only by Moon.
The trials and tribulations he faced in his life read almost like Oliver Twist. Without expounding, as it would fill several books, the following are some of the more interesting phases of his life.
He once sold hot tamales on the streets of Kansas City to get enough money to get back to Augusta.
Then once he worked two weeks for the famous Cowboy Buck Rogers, in Colorado, tending his horses and waiting on him personally.
Alvin was allowed t attend school until the eighth grade. Back at that time you had to take a tes for be credited with the eighth grade. When it came time to take the test, it was, planting time, so he was never allowed to take the test.
At age 15, he met and fell in love with Myrtle Elizabeth Williams. They both were residents of Douglass at this time.
When he was 16, he and Myrtle married at the Cowley County Courthouse in Winfield, July 6,1934.
Their first child was Junior Lee, called “Sonny.” He was born at home in Douglass. Next they had Wanda Darlene, who was also born at home in Augusta. Their third child was Ronald Dean, who was born in the El Dorado Hospital. His last and fourth child was Anita June also born at the El Dorado Hospital.
Alvin and Myrtle had 45 years of hard work, trials and tribulations. But the love they had for each other helped them get through the tough times. Myrtle was plagued with ill health, and after several years of fighting cancer he lost her on July 7,1979.
In 1940, Alvin worked for the W.B. Carter Construction Co. of Wichita, laying pipeline for water, gas and sewers in the Wichita area.
In 1941, he was able to get a job with Mobil Oil Pipeline Division. He worked 40 years for Mobil, retiring in 1981.
Back when he laid pipe, ditches were dug by hand, and carried the pipe on your shoulders. Many evenings he came with bloody shoulders and an aching back.
Through hardships and not having the love of a family while growing up and all the hardships he went through did not affect his personality. Instead, he turned out to be one of the most caring and loving person.
In 1981, he met Jacqueline Howard Ridge through the Oil Chemical & Atomic Workers Union. They started seeing each other just so Jacqueline could teach him to dance. It didn’t take her long to find out what a wonderful man
he was and fall in love with him. On Sept. 19,1982 they married in Beaumont, Texas.
Alvin retired from Mobil in Augusta on Feb. 2, 1982. Jacqueline retired from Mobil on April 1, 1987 in Beaumont, Texas.
After Jacqueline's retirement they moved back to Augusta.
On May 30, 2002 Alvin lost his youngest son, Ronald Dean of Beaumont, Texas. He had is son cremated, burying half his ashes by his grave in Augusta and shipped the other half to his daughter Wanda Prosser in Ferndale, Wash., to scatter his ashes near Orcas Island, as per Ronald's wishes.___
In November of 2004 Moon started having small strokes. They did not paralyze him but each one left him weaker. Then doctors discovered that lung cancer was back. After 30 treatments of radiation they found it would do no good.
His survivors include: wife, Jacqueline Mullin of Augusta; son, Junior Mullin of Holton; step son, Barry L. Ridge of Rome, NY; daughters, Wanda Prosser of Ferndale, Wash, and Anita J. Higgins of Larned; step daughters, Elizabeth Schneider of Honolulu, Hawaii and Vicki L. Horner of El Dorado; 14 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Care of Kansas, 206 W. Central, El Dorado, 67042, and Augusta Senior Center.
The family has requested no flowers.
Arrangements are under the direction of Hillside Funeral Home of Augusta.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page
Title
2005-07-19
Subject
Mullin, Alvin Elwood Jr.
Description
Obituaries published in the Augusta Daily Gazette
Creator
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas]
Publisher
Augusta Public Library, Augusta, Kansas, USA
Date
2005-07-21
Format
Clippings
Language
English
Type
application/pdf
Identifier
b10#83 2005
Citation
Augusta Daily Gazette [Kansas], “2005-07-19,” Digital Augusta, accessed November 22, 2024, https://augusta.digitalsckls.info/item/1573.Text
Alvin Elwood ‘Moon’ Mullin
Alvin Elwood “Moon” Mullin, 88, Augusta, left this world to go with the Lord on Tuesday, July 19, 2005.
A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, at Hillside Funeral Home in Augusta.
Alvin Elwood Mullin was born Feb. 10, 1917, in a tent, under an old oak tree at the end of Osage street, Augusta, close to the old Walnut River Bridge. (The bridge has been gone for many years. There was a tent city at this time, due to the oil discoveries in the Augusta area.) He was born to Naomi Ruth Hale and Josiah Burton Mullin.
His mother divorced his father when he was four years of age. Shortly after the divorce she put his meager clothes in a pillowslip and set him out on the porch, telling him she did not want him.
His father came and took Alvin with him. He was shifted from pillar to post for many years. His father was a farm hand and had to work hard and long days. Alvin started doing a man’s work by the time he was seven years old. He had to stand on the mangers to harness the big Percheron horses he drove in the fields.
His Aunt Jane and Uncle Mike Underwood helped raise him.
There used to be an old cartoon character named Moon Mullins. Adults got to calling Alvin “Moon” and the name stuck. To this day most people know him only by Moon.
The trials and tribulations he faced in his life read almost like Oliver Twist. Without expounding, as it would fill several books, the following are some of the more interesting phases of his life.
He once sold hot tamales on the streets of Kansas City to get enough money to get back to Augusta.
Then once he worked two weeks for the famous Cowboy Buck Rogers, in Colorado, tending his horses and waiting on him personally.
Alvin was allowed t attend school until the eighth grade. Back at that time you had to take a tes for be credited with the eighth grade. When it came time to take the test, it was, planting time, so he was never allowed to take the test.
At age 15, he met and fell in love with Myrtle Elizabeth Williams. They both were residents of Douglass at this time.
When he was 16, he and Myrtle married at the Cowley County Courthouse in Winfield, July 6,1934.
Their first child was Junior Lee, called “Sonny.” He was born at home in Douglass. Next they had Wanda Darlene, who was also born at home in Augusta. Their third child was Ronald Dean, who was born in the El Dorado Hospital. His last and fourth child was Anita June also born at the El Dorado Hospital.
Alvin and Myrtle had 45 years of hard work, trials and tribulations. But the love they had for each other helped them get through the tough times. Myrtle was plagued with ill health, and after several years of fighting cancer he lost her on July 7,1979.
In 1940, Alvin worked for the W.B. Carter Construction Co. of Wichita, laying pipeline for water, gas and sewers in the Wichita area.
In 1941, he was able to get a job with Mobil Oil Pipeline Division. He worked 40 years for Mobil, retiring in 1981.
Back when he laid pipe, ditches were dug by hand, and carried the pipe on your shoulders. Many evenings he came with bloody shoulders and an aching back.
Through hardships and not having the love of a family while growing up and all the hardships he went through did not affect his personality. Instead, he turned out to be one of the most caring and loving person.
In 1981, he met Jacqueline Howard Ridge through the Oil Chemical & Atomic Workers Union. They started seeing each other just so Jacqueline could teach him to dance. It didn’t take her long to find out what a wonderful man
he was and fall in love with him. On Sept. 19,1982 they married in Beaumont, Texas.
Alvin retired from Mobil in Augusta on Feb. 2, 1982. Jacqueline retired from Mobil on April 1, 1987 in Beaumont, Texas.
After Jacqueline's retirement they moved back to Augusta.
On May 30, 2002 Alvin lost his youngest son, Ronald Dean of Beaumont, Texas. He had is son cremated, burying half his ashes by his grave in Augusta and shipped the other half to his daughter Wanda Prosser in Ferndale, Wash., to scatter his ashes near Orcas Island, as per Ronald's wishes.___
In November of 2004 Moon started having small strokes. They did not paralyze him but each one left him weaker. Then doctors discovered that lung cancer was back. After 30 treatments of radiation they found it would do no good.
His survivors include: wife, Jacqueline Mullin of Augusta; son, Junior Mullin of Holton; step son, Barry L. Ridge of Rome, NY; daughters, Wanda Prosser of Ferndale, Wash, and Anita J. Higgins of Larned; step daughters, Elizabeth Schneider of Honolulu, Hawaii and Vicki L. Horner of El Dorado; 14 grandchildren; 35 great-grandchildren; and two great-greatgrandchildren.
Memorials have been established with Hospice Care of Kansas, 206 W. Central, El Dorado, 67042, and Augusta Senior Center.
The family has requested no flowers.
Arrangements are under the direction of Hillside Funeral Home of Augusta.
Original Format
Newspaper clippings affixed to loose-leaf notebook page