Van Buren Co. obits (the older ones)


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March 25, 1994
BEE BRANCH- Mrs. Auda Ermalie Graddy, 83, of Bee Branch, died Wednesday,
March 23, 1994. The Funeral is Saturday, 3:00 p.m. at the Colony Church
of Christ, East of Morganton. Interment will be in the Colony Cemetery.
Visitation 7-9 p.m. today at Roller-McNutt Funeral Home, Conway.

(Special thanks to Louise Bruce for this contribution!)
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Special thanks to John Jordan <johnhj@lightspeed.net> for sending in the following!

Granny Helen Pearl REDFERN, 77

In the early hours of Saturday, July 26, 1997, the city of Maricopa
lost another resident Granny, 77. This time Helen Granny Redfern
passed away to her second battle with cancer.
Granny was born May 9, 1920 in Copeland, Arkansas, Van Buren
County, to William Jasper and Lilly Avus Goad. Granny passed away
in the West Side District Hospital at 2 a.m. Saturday, July 26, 1997.
Granny first came to California in 1947. She was preceeded
in death by her parents William Jasper Goad and Lilly Avus Scarberry
Goad, her two brothers William Noah and Leo Goad, her husband Elmer
Redfern, her son William Omar Redfern (Billy), her daughter Brenda
Fay Redfern and numerous other children.
Granny is survived by her sister, Louise Jones of Rosemond,
Ca., her brother Cecil Goad of Lake Isabella, Ca.; her three sons,
Odos E. Redfern of Bodfish, Ca.; Elmer (Joey) Redfern of Santa
Barbara Ca.; and Larry (Bucky) Redfern of Maricopa, Ca.; her three
daughters, Ellen Dyan Brown of Maricopa, Linda Marie Glenn of
Bakersfield, Ca., and Glenda Mae Sills of Kansas City, Missouri; 
over 50 grand and great grandchildren, and over 90 nieces and
nephews and great nieces and nephews. 
Granny was known best for being a haven to teenagers through
the 60's and 70's. If you needed help from someone or just needed
to talk, her lights and doors were usually on and open or if not she
would wake up. She lived a rough life but made the best of it.
Funeral services will be held in the erickson and Brown
Funeral Home Chapel on Friday at 11 A.m. and burial will follow in
the West Side District Cemetery. Rev. bob birch will officiate
at the services.

This was printed in the THE DAILY MIDWAY DRILLER newspaper, serving
Taft and Maricopa, (Kern County) California; on Thursday July 31, 1997.

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