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Submitted: 12/24/20 • Approved: 12/27/20 • Last Updated: 12/30/20 • R373522-G373522-S3
Thomas J.
1900-1976
Grace E.
1892-1976
Nurse
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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
Obituary for Thomas
Thomas Jefferson Bradford, 76, died Saturday at 3:34 a.m. at the Magic Plains Nursing Home.
Mr. Bradford had been a resident of Borger for the past 50 years, and was a retired superintendent for United Carbon.
He was born February 17, 1900, in Morgan City, La.
Funeral services will be held at 10:00 a.m. Monday in the Chapel of the First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Larry Miller, associate pastor, officiating. Burial will follow in Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
Survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Pricilla Coryell of Canyon, and a sister, Mrs. O.B. Brown of Bossier City, La.
Casketbearers will be CP. Dill, W.R. Brown, Jr., Robert Wilson, Larry Walterscheid, Terry Barslow and Bert Chandler. Honorary bearers will be Clifford Haygood, Clyde Gassaway, T.S. Smock, Lee Cason, Y.L. Waldrop, Gordon Burch, Joe Richards and O.L. Gunter.
(Published in Borger News-Herald, Sunday, April 17, 1976, Page 8)
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Obituary for Grace
Grace Miller Bradford, 816 Monroe, the only female member of Borger's American Legion Post 412, died at 3:50 a.m. today at Magic Plains Nursing Home.
Mrs. Bradford, 83, was a resident of Borger since 1928. She was born Dec. 10, 1892, in Wayland, Mo. At 16, she began nurse's training, at Graham Hospital, Keokuk, Iowa. She nursed in Iowa several years, and then joined the nurse corps of the United States Army, serving during World War I from 1917 to 1919.
She gave up active duty when she first came to Borger, but when World War II caused the recruitment of retired nurses, she became office nurse for the late Dr. Milton Kimball, serving at Casa Serena Hospital in Bunavista for over a decade.
A woman who gave service in the care of others as a result of wars, Mrs. Bradford said, in 1968, when she was honored by Post 412: "I don't believe peace will ever come by the work of man; it will come only from God."
Grace Bradford lived by the ideals of love, freedom, justice, honor and service.
She is survived by her husband, Tom, and her daughter, Priscilla Coryell, Canyon.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the chapel of the First Baptist Church. The Rev. Larry Miller, associate pastor, will officiate. Interment will be at Westlawn Memorial Park, under the direction of Minton Mortuary.
(Published in Borger News Herald, February 20, 1976)
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Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Grace Bradford
Death Date: 20 Feb 1976
Death County: Hutchinson
Gender: Female
U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Grace Bradford
Last Residence:
79007 Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
BORN: 10 Dec 1892
Died: Feb 1976
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: Grace Elizabeth Bradford
[Grace Elizabeth Miller]
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1892
Birth Place: Wayland, Missouri
Gender: Female
Race: White
Residence: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas
Father: William Miller
Mother: Ann Ross
Age at Death: 83
Death Date: 20 Feb 1976
Death Place: Borger, Hutchinson, Texas, USA
U.S., Department of Veterans Affairs BIRLS Death File, 1850-2010
Name: Grace Bradford
Birth Date: 10 Dec 1892
Death Date: 20 Feb 1976
Branch 1: ARMY
Enlistment Date 1: 1 Oct 1918
Release Date 1: 11 Jan 1919
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