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Beulah Fay “Dude” Hogue Dunlap
11 Nov 1924 – 20 Mar 2015
| Birth | 11 Nov 1924 |
| Death | 20 Mar 2015 |
| Cemetery | Payne Cemetery Athens , Henderson County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Margaret Peterson Khan on 28 Mar 2025 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/143999095 |
Bio
Beulah Fay Hogue Armstrong Dunlap She was born on November 11, 1924 on the Tom Faulk Farm in Baxter, Henderson County, Texas. The last of nine children born to James Hirum & Emily Delura Culpepper Hogue. Hirum was a share cropper who worked from daylight till dark to eke out a meager existence on the farm. As Beulah began to walk, she would follow her Daddy everywhere. He nicked named her "Dude". Because she was the baby of the family she was her Daddy's "little Dude". Growing up Dude, like most farm kids in a big family, always wore hand me down clothes. She realized when she went to school in Palmer, Texas that the town kids had much finer clothes than she was ever afforded. The census of 1940 finds her living in the Picken's Spur area of Henderson County, just north of Athens, Texas. It was in this community that she met and married Darwin Armstrong. It was a stormy marriage because of his infidelity. I'm sure she raised her voice to Darwin many times because of this. She did have a loud and sharp tongue which she didn't mind using at all. One child was born to this marriage, Travis Armstrong. They divorced but later remarried because of her desire for Travis to have a Daddy. The second marriage didn't last long resulting in a second divorce. She later married George Dunlap. Beulah spent most of her working life in low paying jobs, like cafeteria and box factory work. She finally landed a good paying job at Chance Vought Corporation, in Arlington, Texas doing "rosy the riveter" work. She retired after twenty-five years service with a good pension. She was very stand offish with friends and family with a fear they would question her about Travis who drank a lot and ended up in prison. Travis always worried Beulah with his wayward ways. Like a loving mother, she said when he was sober, you couldn't ask for a better son. Unfortunately, he was rarely sober. Beulah, like her mother and sisters was a wonderful cook, making everything from scratch. Pies, cakes and chicken and dumplings were my favorite and she joyfully cooked for me often. Looking after her for the last seventeen years endeared her to me like a mother. The last years she drove, her nephew, Billy Harris and myself provided her with cars. Beulah, to say the least, was very plain spoken. This sometimes offended many family and friends. When she spoke of her trifling husbands, she gritted her teeth and her voice rose the longer she talked. The habit of talking very loud may have come from working in the noisy airplane factory for so many years. Beulah fell and broke her hip and after coming home decided on her own it was time for her to go to the nursing home. She spent the last years of her life at South Place Nursing Home in Athens, Texas. She died peacefully on Friday, March 20, 2015. I am sure we will all remember her as a real pistol. She now rests in peace in Payne Cemetery in Henderson County, Texas.
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- Bunard Dial "Hotshot" Hogue 1907–1998
- Climouth J. Hugh "CJ" Hogue 1909–1999
- Jonathan Clifton Hogue 1911–1999
- James Marlin "Shorty" Hogue 1913–1976
- Hiram Haskell "Preacher" Hogue 1915–2005
- Josie Delura Hogue Harris 1918–2009
- Willie Beatrice Hogue Lee 1920–2013
- Brunette Eldora Hogue Benge 1922–1999
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