Obit of Jerry Merl Brandon (b653) - Comanche County, Oklahoma

Submitted by:  Sheridan Brandon Drowatzky  <kssooners@aol.com>  13 Nov 1998
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Jerry Merl Brandon, 65, field representative of Lawton Urban Renewal 
Authority, of 1120 Laird, died at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday (March 15, 
1972) in Baptist Memorial Hospital in Oklahoma City. He had entered 
the hospital about 3 p.m. Wednesday.

Services were held at 2 p.m. Saturday (March 17) in St. Paul's 
United Methodist Church, Lawton, with Rev. John Reskovac, pastor, 
officiating. Burial was in Waurika Cemetery under direction of 
Ritter-Dalton Funeral Home.

A former city councilman, Mr. Brandon was born July 9, 1906, in 
Lawton. He married Edwina Nall of Waurika on February 15, 1931, in 
Marietta, Oklahoma. They lived in Clinton until 1934 when they moved 
to Waurika.

In Waurika, Mr. Brandon served as president of the Chamber of 
Commerce and two terms as mayor. They returned to Lawton in 1954 
where he served four years and three months as city councilman.

He was a member of St. Paul's United Methodist Church, Association 
of Life Underwriters, Lawton Chamber of Commerce, and former member 
of Rotary Club and Northwest Kiwanis.

Survivors include his wife of the home; two daughters: Mrs. Donald 
O. (Jerry Marilyn) Clark, Carlisle Barracks, PA., and Mrs. Ernest M. 
(Sheridan Ann) Drowatzky, Alexandria, LA.; one brother: Sanford 
Brandon, 1002 I, three sisters: Mrs. Orval Hanks, Burkburnett, Tex; 
Mrs. Viola Witsil, 1006 I, and Mrs. B. X. Crandall, Oklahoma City, 
and five grandchildren: Steven Brandon Clark, David Olson Clark, 
Eric Brandon Drowatzky, Stacy Lynne Drowatzky, and Clark Christopher 
Drowatzky. 
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