John Franklin Sullivan

I met Johnny when he moved three houses away from me, also Johnny, as a young teenager. I was three years his junior and, despite the unlikelihood of friendship given our age difference in that difficult cohort, we began hanging out frequently playing Horse on his driveway basketball "court" outfitted with floodlights he had wired, preordaining his gifts as a self-taught electrician. In his beautiful sky-blue 327 Chevy, we frequented Boots DriveIn for Cokes and pie. We routinely watched...

I was very saddened to know of John's passing. We have been neighbors and friends for 20 years here in S. Tulsa. For years John volunteered his time to keep the entrance lights and lamp posts operating for our neighborhoods home owners Assoc. I will very much miss our early morning conversations when I walked our neighborhoods. God rest you my friend. Tom Payne