Mary Louise Huff

Mary Louise Huff was 24 years old, when she was granted an exclusive interview with Mrs. Carolann Smith on Tuesday, June 13, 1944.

Her news article was published in the Wednesday, June 14th edition of The Tulsa Tribune. The article was titled "Hex House Mistress Bares Tragic Life."

Mary Louise Huff was born on July 22, 1919, in Ironton, Missouri. Her parents moved the family to Tulsa, Oklahoma where she spent most of her childhood. She graduated from Central High School.

She attended Oklahoma State University and then later attended the University of Missouri School of Journalism. She graduated and used her Journalism degree to get a job at The Tulsa Tribune in 1940.

While working at The Tulsa Tribune she met and married political reporter Nolen Bulloch. Their wedding was on the 18th of May 1945. They had four children together.

She later attended the University of Tulsa and earned a Master's of Education degree. She then taught English for ten years at Memorial High School in Tulsa. Mary Louise was fifty-two years old when Nolen died in 1971. After his death, she moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma and taught Journalism and English at Oklahoma State University.

She met faculty member, Leo Turner, at Oklahoma State University, and they married in 1975. In 1985 at the age of 65, she earned her PhD in English Literature from Oklahoma State University. Also, in 1985 her husband Leo Turner died.

Using her PhD she obtained a full-time teaching position in the Department of English at Northwestern Oklahoma State University in Alva, Oklahoma. She retired in 1995 at the age of 75 and later met and married John Frick. They moved to Morrison, Oklahoma.

She had a love of music and became a talented pianist and often played at churches. She studied the organ when she was 60 years old, and became an accomplished church organist.

Mary Louise passed away at the age of 97 on the 11th of January 2017. She had four children, nine grandchildren, and fifteen great-grandchildren.

Note to readers: We have made our best effort to provide the most accurate information about the history of the Hex House of Tulsa. We collected newspaper articles, researched genealogy, and historical documents like marriage licenses, census information, city directories, and draft cards.