Named for Tams Bixby, an early leader of the Creek tribe, Bixby was established in 1899. Building materials, sequestered by wartime priorities, became available after the war, leading to a wave of new parishes in and around Tulsa, including St. Clement's parish. The parish was begun in 1957 to serve the needs of migrant workers harvesting fruit and vegetable fields in the rich soil along the Arkansas River. The next year its multi-purpose building was erected on a ten-acre site at 155th and Memorial. Except for some minor expansions and renovations, the property is essentially as it was in the beginning.

Adapted with permission from This Far by Faith.

Picture from the groundbreaking ceremony for the first St. Clement church.