Gentry county Missouri, Obituaries:  Beulah Evelyn Branstetter

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Submitted by: <dhr1953@hotmail.com>  Don Raymond

Stanberry Headlight, November 1, 1962:
Tractor Accident:
Graveside Rites Held Here Tuesday for Mrs. Clifford Branstetter of Nerar Peculiar, MO.

        Approximately 100 persons attended graveside services Tuesday  afternoon
        in the High Ridge Cemetery for Mrs. Beulah Evelyn Branstetter,  37,  who
        was killed instantly last Saturday afternoon in a farm tractor  accident
        at her farm home near Peculiar, MO.

        The rites here and the  services  Tuesday  morning  at  Coleman  Baptist
        church in Peculiar were conducted by the pastor, the Rev. Robert Easton.

        It was reported that Mrs. Branstetter was helping her husband  dig  post
        holse with a power drive tractor when the fatal accident  occurred.  Her
        scarf became entangled in the  power  dirve  and  pulled  her  into  the
        machine, killing her instantly.

        Survivors Listed: Survivors include her husband,  Clifford  Branstetter,
        of the home; two daughters and two sons, Judith, Rita, Marlin and Curtis
        Branstetter, all of the home; her parents Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Slagle, of
        near Ravenwood.

        She also is survived by four sisters and two brothers, who are Mrs. John
        Shanks, Gentry; Mrs.  Harold  Adwell,  Ravenwood;  Mrs.  Merlin  Osborn,
        Savannah; Mrs. Leland Messner, Kansas City;  Roy  Slagle,  Kansas  City,
        MO.; and Vilas Slagle, St. Joseph. Two grandmothers, Mrs. Lillie Morrow,
        Stanberry, and Mrs. Florence Slagle, Ravenwood, also survive, as well as
        a wide circle of friends.

        Mrs. Branstetter was born at Ravenwood on June 18,  1925.  She  attended
        the Stanberry high school.  She  and  Mr.  Branstetter  were  united  in
        marriage on Nov. 15, 1945.

        Mrs. Branstetter, who was converted in her early teens, was a member and
        very active in the Coleman Baptist church.