UPSON COUNTY  GA  Obits  Mr. Homer Benton Braswell

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Braswell
Mr. Homer Benton Braswell, 91, of 218 Barnesville
Street, died Monday afternoon, September 24, 1984,
at Upson County Hospital.

Funeral services were conducted Wednesday afternoon,
September 26, in the chapel of Pasley-Fletcher
Funeral Home with Dr. Robert M. Hoffmann and the
Rev. Ted Kandler officiating.  Pasley-Fletcher
Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.  Burial
was in Glenwood Cemetery.

A native of Coweta County, Mr. Braswell had been a
resident of Upson County since 1925. He was a
retired cattle farmer and blacksmith.  He joined the
First Baptist Church on March 15, 1925, and was
ordained as a deacon on October 13, 1926.  At the
time of his death, Mr. Braswell was the oldest
living deacon of the First Baptist Church.  He was a
member of the Woodman of the World and a Shriner, a
member of Morning Star Lodge #27, Free and Accepted
Masons, Morning Star Chapter 370,  Order of the
Eastern Star, and received his 50-year Grand Lodge
Award on October 14, 1971.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Sue Martin Braswell
of Thomaston, three daughters:  Mrs. Dorothy B,
McDaniel of Macon, Mrs. Lillian B. Yeats, and Mrs.
Lucile B. Vining, both of Thomaston.  Eleven
grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren  and seven
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