Fred E. “Bud” Daniel of Folsom, New Mexico
November 14, 1931 – February 5, 2021
Fred E. “Bud” Daniel, age 89, died on Friday, February 5, 2021, at his home.
Funeral services will be held on Monday, February 8th at 2:00 PM Mountain Time at the Kenton Community Center in Kenton, Oklahoma. Burial will follow in the Kenton Cemetery. Arrangements are under the direction of Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton, New Mexico.
Fred Earl Daniel, better known as Bud, was born on November 14th, 1931 to James and Emma Powers Daniel. He was born on the family farm north of Boise City, OK, the 9th of 10 children. The Daniel’s children attended school in Boise City, OK until the family moved east of Kenton, Oklahoma to the Murry place. Bud and his siblings walked to the closest school, Cowboy College, for a few years, and then went to school at Kenton before his dad bought a place at Yoder, Colo. Bud graduated high school from Yoder during the Korean war. Bud said he went to three schools of renown, [1] Cowboy College, [2] Kenton, and [3] School of Hard Knocks.
Bud wanted to go to college, but there was no money for higher education. Full-time employment opportunities were scarce because of the likelihood that he would be drafted. The Army did draft him and sent him to Fort Lenardwood for training, and then to Korea for the last 8 months of the war. He went to the front lines where the fighting was the most fierce. In the last eight days of war, the shelling was constant with no time for sleeping or eating. After news of a truce finally reached the front lines, it took him 24 hours to unwind enough to sleep.
After the war ended in 1953, Bud was discharged from the Army and he returned to the States. After visiting his mother, father, and sisters in Colorado Springs, he went to Folsom, NM to visit his two brothers Harry and Lee, who were working for the Spool Cattle Company. Bud was also hired on at the Spool & resided there for the next 13 years. On November 24th, 1962, he married Catherine Louise Regnier, the little tow headed girl he used to tease in school. After their wedding, they stayed there on the Spool, and on February 25th, 1964, Bud and Cathy added a special blessing to their family when they had their son, Laurance Earl.
Around 1966, Bud and Cathy left the Spool and started leasing the Schaffer Place, where they ran cattle and raised hay. Eventually, they bought the place where they live now.
Bud was a member of the Dry Cimarron Fire Department from the time of its inception until his health failed him. There were times when he was the only fireman. Bud was also a member of the First Baptist Church of Kenton. He was not much of a church goer, but he believed in living by the Ten Commandments and doing what he thought God would want him to do.
Cathy asks that Bud not be remembered by who he was the last few years of his life, but be remembered by the decades of wit, goodness to others, and honesty.
Bud was proceeded in death by his son Laurance Earl, who was killed in an accident in 1984. Bud was also preceded in death by his parents, James and Emma Daniel, 5 sisters: Lucy Schrayer, Lulu Miller, Lillie Quackenbush, Edith Earl, and Mildred Forney; 3 brothers Roy Daniel, Lee Daniel, and Harry Daniel.
Bud is survived by his wife, Cathy Regnier Daniel, one sister, Jean Daniel of Colorado Springs, and numerous nieces and nephews on both sides of the family.
The family has asked that donations be made to the Laurance Daniel Scholarship fund in memory of Bud. Donations can be mailed to Hass Funeral Home, PO Box 187, Clayton, NM 88415.
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