"Well that's that" has been grandma's response to finishing a dreaded chore or enjoying some long awaited fun activity. After 99 years, 8 months, and 15 days of living I can just hear her telling grandpa, "Well that's that." Her life started nearly a century ago on May 1, 1910 in Iowa. She was the first child born to Don Carlos and Flossie B. (Clary) Cully. Grandma's life experiences have been vast and varied over the last century. When she went to school they were taught that travel to the moon was impossible and even if you could get that far you would die of old age before you arrived. She experienced the changes from horses to cars as transportation, coal oil lamps to electricity, indoor plumbing, and the Influenza epidemic of 1918 to name just a few. Grandma came to Oklahoma in 1911 with her mother and father. She liked to show the picture of her getting off the train with her sack of bananas. They came to start a new chapter of their lives, running the store at Wooddale, OK. It was a filling station, post office, a place where the farmers could sell their cream, eggs, milk, and hides, and then purchase the supplies they needed. It was also a place where men gathered to spin yarns. Grandma said her mother paid her brother, Henry, a penny not to go so that he wouldn't hear unfit words. They also hosted community gatherings at the store where each would bring milk, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients to go in their six gallon ice cream freezer that would make plenty for all to share. Grandma's brother, Henry, nicknamed her "Eck" because he couldn't say "sister". The name stuck and most of the family from Iowa still refers to her as Eck. Grandma liked to share the story of her horse named Chief. He had been a race horse from the racetrack at Seiling. Grandma admired her dad so very much and said she always thought if her dad didn't know about something then it probably hadn't been thought of. She also passed on a piece of his sage advice that he would just as soon not know so much as to know so much that wasn't so. Grandma said her dad would tell her, "If you can't do something it's probably because you didn't try hard enough." Grandma met grandpa, Roy Levi Main, when she was just a young girl. Her dad didn't much care for those "Main boys,", even though their father was a preacher. He thought they were a bit on the wild side. On May 7, 1927 Florence Isabelle Cully became the bride of Roy Levi Main. The story always embarrassed her, but occasionally you would hear the real story of their elopement. Their first son, Gerald Lee, was born on January 9, 1929. Times were very hard back then and jobs were hard to come by. They farmed in the Taloga area for a while and then went to Waynoka where grandpa found a job with the Santa Fe Railroad. Grandma spent the next 18 years traveling from Waynoka to Clovis, NM keeping house in a "living car" while grandpa worked on the railroad. Grandma kept Gerald in school by driving him either back to where they had been, or forward to where they would be working next. On August 20, 1943 their second son, Donald Robert, was born. In 1947 they moved to the farm east of Vici where they started the second career of their married life, running the farm. It was hard work, but they always did everything together. Grandma was always there to hand grandpa a nail or a hammer and if he had to go somewhere she was always ready to go with her purse and her handwork. Grandma liked to make as much as she could on her own without having to buy things. She didn't like for grandpa to have to eat "baker's bread" so she always made bread for him. She also learned to make crackers and they were a well liked treat. Normally for Christmas the girls would all receive a new flannel nighty from grandma. In the fall of 1965 they moved to town and began a semi-retired life. They still had cows on the farm and enjoyed helping their son Don as he began doing the farming. They also liked to grow as much as they could in their garden, especially different things like peanuts and cotton. They celebrated their 50th wedding anniversary on May 7, 1977 and Grandpa wouldn't let the kids plan or put on the event. He said since they didn't have a real wedding, they were going to go all out, and it was quite the event. Grandma lost Grandpa on July 8, 1978. She was a brave widow for 31 1/2 years. She filled her time with gardening, quilting, and reading her Bible. She decided to read her Bible from beginning to end and when she would finish reading it she would start over again. She had read the Bible through at least 17 times. Grandma and her sisters would always have such a grand time when they got together. They would visit and discuss, sometimes rather loudly, days gone by. To others it would sound like an argument, but it was just a "Cully sister" discussion. Grandma was always ready to go with you and it really didn't matter where. She could pack quick as a wink and it didn't matter if she forgot something because it was probably already a normal staple contained in her purse that weighed two tons. If she didn't have it in her purse, it was probably something you could truly live without. She enjoyed Scrabble and was a very formidable opponent. She and her son Gerald spent many hours in lively competitions. She lived alone, gardened, mowed her lawn, and drove her own car until July of 2006 when she was 96. At that time her health began to fail and she went to live with her son Don and his wife Bonnie on the farm. This past fall she and her cousin Carol Porter Pierce went to their school reunion at Liberty School, a reunion of several pioneer schools of the Orion area. She and Carol attended the Union School and shared the front seat together for many years. Carol is one year older and they were both honored with being the oldest students present. Grandma enjoyed just being with her family and would often say, "I just don't know what people do when they don't have family." She has always been a very pleasant and sweet lady to be around. Even though she might not agree with you in her words she didn't want to "arge" with anyone. She didn't say negative things about others--- it just wasn't in her character to do so. She was very brave and strong and the only thing she was afraid of was snakes. She said would make her sick and weak just to see one. Grandma made her commitment of faith in her Lord Jesus Christ in 1930. She was always proud of the heritage of faith in her family. Grandma's great grandfather, W.H. Porter, was a circuit riding preacher in the 1800's and Grandpa's father was a circuit riding Methodist preacher who held many revivals in the area. Her oldest son Gerald was a Methodist preacher and his son Gary also followed in the ministry. Her son Don has always been a faithful worker in his church and involved in lay speaking. Most recently, Gerald's granddaughter Jolennda Marie Cole has entered the ministry so the work of faith continues in another generation. On January 16, 2010, as God took Grandma by the hand and said to her, "Well done good and faithful servant", I'm sure she saw the faces of her parents Don Carlos and Flossie B. (Clary)Cully, her brothers Alvin Henry and Dru Clary, her sisters Clarice Adeline, Arlene Bernita, Clarinne Blossom, Joy Marie, and Wille Dawn, her husband Roy Levi Main, her son Rev. Gerald Lee Main, a grandson-in-law Roger Cole, and a grandson Robert Leroy Main. Those that can look forward to following her through heaven's gates are her son Donald and wife Bonnie Main of Vici, daughter-in-law Glennda Main of Oklahoma City, sister-in-law Bille Main of Amarillo, TX, brothers-in-law Max Mazzetti of Escondido, CA and Leonard Fletcher of Amarillo, TX, a special cousin Carol Pierce of Edmond, OK, grandson Rev. Gary Main and wife Chris of Kearney, NE, granddaughters Glenna Vaughan and husband David of Oklahoma City, Donna Peoples and husband Eric of Vici, Bobbie Mitchell and husband Thomas of Laverne, and Betty Peard of Vici, great grandchildren Terry Cole and wife Chalinee of Oklahoma City, Christopher and wife Cameron of Lincoln, NE, Christene Main of Kansas City, MO, Tessa Main of Springfield, MO, Rev. Jolennda Cole of Sheridan, MI, Kevin Cole and fiancé Heather Blevins of Oklahoma City, Kelson Peoples and wife Laura of Edmond, OK, Cory and Brenton Mitchell of Laverne, OK, Kelby Peoples of Weatherford, OK, Seaman Barrrett Main of US Navy Oceana, VA, Mikol, Keenan, and Skylar Peard of Vici, Cheyenne Peard of San Diego, CA, and Blair and Clare Peoples of Vici, OK, and two great-great grandsons Dylan Roger Cole of Oklahoma City and Bristol Ray Peoples of Edmond, OK. She has finally received her long awaited reward. We will miss her smile and her "never give up spirit", but we will not be sad that she has attained her goal. If we cry it is only selfishly for ourselves. Go in peace Grandma-our lives were rich because of you and that's that!