Obit of Griffith, Brunetta Bernard - Grady County, Oklahoma Transcribed by: Gene Phillips 11 Jun 2006 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Rush Springs Cemetery--Rush Springs OK Duncan Banner 13 Jan 2006 Brunetta Bernard Griffith March 9, 1919 - Jan. 11, 2006 Brunetta Bernard Griffith, 86, of Duncan, passed away Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2006 in Duncan. Service will be 2 p.m. Saturday at Callaway-Smith-Cobb Chapel in Rush Springs with Cliff Werhan officiating. Burial will be in Rush Springs Cemetery under the direction of Callaway-Smith-Cobb Chapel in Rush Springs. ========= Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Obits Brunetta Bernard Griffith March 9, 1919 - January 11, 2006 Brunetta Bernard Griffith, 86, of Duncan passed away January 11, 2006, in Duncan. She was born March 9, 1919, in Rush Springs to C.E. and Gertrude Sperling Bernard. She graduated from Rush Springs High School. She studied six years under Professor Derald Swineford of Oklahoma College of Liberal Arts. Brunetta married Joe Griffith on June 4, 1945, in Indianapolis, Indiana. She lived in Florida for 15 years before settling in Rush Springs. She began painting oils in the early 1970s. Her artwork has received many awards and hangs in the Chisholm Trail Heritage Center, the Choctaw Nation Headquarters in Durant, the Veterans Hospital in Lawton, and numerous other places. Her series of the Leaders of the Five Civilized Tribes was purchased for display in Washington, D.C. Brunetta painted several historical murals, one depicting early Rush Springs hangs in the Rush Springs Library. Brunetta was very proud of her Choctaw heritage and keenly interested in Oklahoma History. She did extensive research for each one of her historical and Indian paintings. Brunetta was a longtime board member of the Oklahoma Historical Society where she was selected as Outstanding Artist. She was also a member of the D.A.R. and the Rush Springs Church of Christ. In addition to her love for painting, history and genealogy, she experienced great joy in being co-owner with her husband of the Book Store in Ward Mall. She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Cicero, Virgil and Spencer Bernard. Survivors include her husband, Joe, of the home; daughter, Melanie Twelves and husband, Ron, of Duncan; two sons, Joseph Bernard and wife, Karolyn, of Poquoson, Virginia, and John Paul of Norman; four grandchildren, Charles K. Twelves of Oklahoma City, William D. Bill Twelves of Binghamton, New York, Eric Harman of Virginia, and Ellen Jones of South Carolina; four great-grandchildren, Morgan, Tobin, Lucas and Maci; three sisters-in-law and numerous nieces and nephews. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html