Buddy Michael Tennison

Funeral services for Buddy Michael Tennison will be held on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019 at the Reed-Culver Chapel in Tahlequah, OK with Brother Terry Wofford officiating. A visitation will be held on Monday, October 21st, 2019 from 1:00 pm until 6:00 pm at Reed-Culver Funeral Home. He will be laid to rest at Hulbert I.O.O.F. Cemetery. Online condolences for his family may be left at www.reedculver.com.

Pallbearers for Buddy include JW Caughman, Samuel Brave, Craig Edwards, Ron Edwards, Daryel Edwards, and Leslie Steelmon, with Hopsing Jenkins, Kyle Jenkins, and Bobby Young serving as an honorary pallbearer.

Buddy Michael Tennison was born as James Lee White on Friday, June 16th, 1961 in Muskogee, OK. He was the son of Leon and Doris Irene (Brummett) White and raised alongside his sister, Cherie. His parents raised him to be a lover of the outdoors, especially fishing, camping and boating. He thrived to learn all he could about his Cherokee heritage. Buddy loved to travel and took any chance to see new places. He was skilled with his hands and spent his free time creating beautiful beadwork. If you stopped to chat, you would soon discover that he was a very outgoing and friendly man who never met a stranger. On Friday, October 18th, 2019, Buddy passed from this life at the age of 58.

Buddy is preceded in death by his parents.

Those left to cherish his memory include his three sons and one daughter, James Lucas White of Hulbert, OK, Jesse James White and wife Marisa of Pryor, OK, Charles Gipson and wife Lyssa of Owasso, OK and Jamie Lynn and husband Dylan Massey of Welch, OK and his sister Cherie Brave of Hulbert, OK. Among those left behind are 12 grandchildren, Brianna, Areanna, Andrew, Devin, Karolyn, Wyatt, Saige, Jackson, Taylor, Nathan, Allison, and Lauren with number 13 on the way as well as a host of friends and loved ones too numerous to mention.