Floyd Henry Shipman

Floyd Henry Shipman was born January 31, 1923 to George Matthew and Lillian (McMillian) Shipman in Bristow, Oklahoma. He died Wednesday, April 25, 2012 in Norman, Oklahoma at the age of 89 years, 2 months and 24 days.

Floyd enlisted in the United States Army in March 1943 and served 33 months in North Africa and Italy during WWII. He then received an honorable discharge on December 10, 1945. He and Mary Wyna (Nichols) Mitchelmore were married June 10, 1965 in Sulphur. Floyd worked for the U.S. Postal Service as a rural mail carrier for Sulphur for 22 years before retiring in April 1988. He also worked twelve years in the parts department for Cooper Auto Store and as a roughneck in the oilfield for 30 years.

Floyd was an artist working in oils, acrylics and watercolors. He was a member of the Artists of the Arbuckles since 1980 where he served as President and Parliamentarian. He was a 63 year member of the Masonic Lodge serving as Master six times and received his 50 years pin in 1999. Floyd loved his family, church and art, and was very proud to be a Chickasaw Tribal Elder.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Mary, who died July 27, 2007; parents; brothers, G.W. and Harold Shipman; and granddaughter, Stacie Shipman.

Floyd is survived by daughter, Marilyn McCurtain and husband, Lynn of Sulphur; sons, Larry Shipman and wife, Donna, of Blanchard and Garry Mitchelmore and wife, Mary Beth, of Littleton, Colorado; two sisters: Maxine Johnson of Moore, Oklahoma and Sandra Stalcup of Clovis, New Mexico; seven grandchildren: Heather Teague, Grant Mitchelmore, Kristen Laney, Dillon Shipman, Mercy Szalaj, Kemper Shrader and Kempy Shrader; and 6 great grandchildren.

4/28/2012
10:00 AM

Funeral
Crossway First Baptist Church

Sulphur
OK