Eddy Co. NM & Carter Co. OK - OBITS:  Freeman Harrison Bray

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Submitted by:  patti pennington <patti_p_99@yahoo.com>
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The following excerpts were taken from page 14 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - January 16, 2000

BRAY (*See note at end of this posting)
Graveside funeral services were January 14 at Mount Olive Cemetery
for former Artesia resident Freeman Harrison Bray of 
Healdton, Oklahoma.  Bray, 88, died on January 11 in an
Ardmore, Okla., hospital.  He was born on March 11, 1911, in
Healdton, the son of Joe Franklin and Marietta Mame Bray.  He
married Catherine Reeves on May 28, 1934, in Healdton.  He
owned and operated F.H. Bray Trucking and House Moving and later
Bray's Grocery and Meat Market.  They moved to Artesia where he
owned and operated Cosdon Service Station.  They moved back to
Healdton in 1975.  He was a member of the Ratliff City Church
of Christ, was a charter member of the Moose Lodge in Artesia
and was a member of the Odd Fellow Lodge (I.O.O.F.) in
Healdton and Artesia.  Survivors include sons Richard Franklin Bray
and Tomie Eugene Bray, both of Healdton, and Jimmy Jay Bray of
Carthage, Texas; daughter Carolyn Kay Ford of Tacoma, Wash.;
sister Wanda Garrett of Tussy, Okla.; brother J.D. Bray of
Healdton; 14 grandchildren; 26 great-grandchildren; and three
great-great-grandchildren.  He was preceded in death by his wife
Catherine, in 1996; son Ernest Bray in 1999; brothers, Otto, Orvil
and Cameron Bray; and sister Jimmie Upshaw.
*(Mr. Bray's granddaughter contacted me with a correction to the 
above information.  Freeman Harrison Bray's mother was Mary Etta
McCarley Bray, and her nickname was Mammie.  The name Mammie was also 
used on census records.)