BERNSEN, FRANKLIN EDWARD - Tulsa County, Oklahoma | FRANKLIN EDWARD BERNSEN - Oklahoma Gravestone Photos

Franklin Edward BERNSEN

Memorial Park Cemetery
Tulsa County,
Oklahoma

Grace Wilson Bernsen
Born: November 1, 1895 @ Canada; Died: April 28, 1982 @ Tulsa, Oklahoma. Grace is the daughter of Charles Abrams Wilson and Phoebe Ann (Trask) Wilson.

Franklin Edward Bernsen
Veteran
World War I
February 7,1893 - January 7,1984

Born in New York and died in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Franklin is the son of Benjamin Franklin Bernsen and Jessie (Edwards) Bernsen. Born in the Eastern United States, Franklin Bernsen received his early educattion in Pennsylvania and New Jersey before graduating in 1915 from Williams College. After college, he joined his family in California in the early days of what would later become known as the "Golden Era" of the silent motion picture industry. The handsome young Bernsen appears as an "extra" in several film production, incluidnng "A Night at the Show" featuring Charlie Chaplin.

Franklin's experiences in California included work in the Taft oil field for General Petroleum Company, where he first became familiar with a name he would later be associated with, that of the Lucey Manufacturing Corporation, as well as driving for a Canadian family that wished to tour the States. Included in that family, the Charles A. Wilson's of Ontario, was a daughter, Grace, a 1912 graduate of the West Lake School for Girls in Los Angeles, who was destined to become Mrs. Franklin Bernsen.

After serving oversears in World War I, Bernsen joined the Lucey Manufacturing Corporation, in what would remain a principal business association throughout his lifetime. Quickly catching the attention of the management as a prospective salesman, he was sent to Covington, Oklahoma, a community east of Enid, in the north central part of the States.

In that exciting era of burgeoning growth in the State's oil industry, Bernsen attained rapid success. Less than ten years after joining Lucey, he became President of the Lucey Products Company, located in Tulsa.

In Tulsa, the Bernsen's became known for their philanthropic efforts.

Contributed on 9/8/18 by megskye
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Submitted: 9/8/18 • Approved: 9/8/18 • Last Updated: 12/3/22 • R43907-G29886-S3

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