Carter Co., OK - OBIT:  Joe Cameron Bray

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Submitted by:  Robin Ezell
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  Surnames: Bray, Brown, Upshaw, Garrett
   
  Bray Rites Held Here Wednesday

  Services for Joe Cameron Bray were held Wednesday, Feb. 15 at 2:00 p.m. 
  in the First Christian Church. Rev. John Black, minister of the church,
  officiated. Interment was in the Mount Olive Cemetery under the direction 
  of Reser Funeral Home.
  He was born on June 22, 1920 in Healdton, where he has lived all of his 
  life except for 5 years spent in the U.S. Army where he served in Italy 
  and North Africa. He married Francis Stevens on March 17, 1947, at 
  Gainesville, Tex. He was a driller in the oilfield. He was a member of 
  the First Christian Church, Masonic Lodge and V.F.W. He passed away in 
  an Ardmore hospital of February 13, 1978 after a 2 year illness.
  He is survived by his wife, of the home: 1 daughter, Mrs. Charlene Brown 
  of Mercede, Calif.: 2 sons, Joel C. of Ardmore and Danny of Healdton; 2 
  brothers, J.D. of Healdton and Freeman of Artesia, N.M.; 2 sisters, 
  Mrs. Jimmie Upshaw of Moore and Mrs. Wanda Garrett of Tussy; also 3 
  grandchildren.
  
  Serving as pallbearers were Joe Kana, Hester Blundell, Vernon Walker, 
  Shelton Stewart, John robinson and Evert McLain.