Cleve Allen Cullers

Cleve Allen Cullers passed away on Wednesday, October 24, 2018.  He was 95 years of age.  A memorial service will be on Saturday, October 27, 2018 at 2:00 p.m. in the chapel of Piersall Funeral Directors, 733 Butternut Street.

Cleve was born in Shawnee, Oklahoma and spent most of his life in Abilene, Texas but Bryson, Texas was his home town where he grew up.

Cleve was the first born to Dolph and Ora Cullers in 1923.  He graduated from Abilene Christian College in 1947, where he met and married Alyene Brownrigg of Big Spring.  Within the same month of marriage, Cleve began working for Gulf Oil Corporation in Midland, Texas.  Gulf Oil transferred Cleve and his wife to Wichita Falls where they began their family with their first two children.  In 1956 the family moved to Abilene where Cleve started his own property tax company.  For 29 years Cleve and his company represented oil production companies, businesses and school districts all over the state of Texas.

After selling Cullers & Bailey Property Tax Service, Cleve opened his second business at One Energy Square in downtown Abilene as a petroleum landman for 15 years.

Cleve had many accomplishments, although he would not boast about them, but were all important and endearing to him.  He was a member of the Key City Kiwanis Club with 56 years of perfect attendance and served as president and Lt Governor for Kiwanis.  He also served one term on Abilene City council, was active in mental health organizations, suicide prevention, Christian Service Center, Meals-on-Wheels, Zoological Society, Retired Military Officers, West Central Oil & Gas Association, Property Tax Appraisal Board, Chisholm Trail Counsel of Boy Scouts and served on the grand jury.

He was volunteer chaplain at TDCJ for 15 years and visited Administrative Segregation area of the Robertson unit on Sunday afternoons.

Cleve was happily married to Mattie Mae “Jiggs” Allen in 1977 until she passed away in 2002.  He was a faithful member of the University Church of Christ for 62 years where he served as deacon and a teacher of junior high boys.

Cleve loved God, his family and this country.  He saw action during WWII in the Navy at the invasion of Peleliu in the South Pacific, where he was the skipper of Landing Craft Tank 925.   He remained at this island for a year hauling supplies and personnel from ship to shore since ships could not anchor due to the shallow depth of the ocean.  He was underway to Okinawa when word of a peace treaty was signed and retired a LCDR (Lieutenant commander) and served 25 years in the Naval Reserves.

Surviving Cleve is his wife Jessica Rose Cullers, four children, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.  They are Cullen Keith Cullers and wife Judy and their son David Cullers;  Karen Fogelman; Laura Minor and her children Jessica Minor, Jackson Minor and Molly Rawls and husband Hunter; Alan Bret Cullers and wife Denise and children Catie Burt and husband Bennett, Brock Cullers and Elisabeth Cullers.

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