Love Co., OK. - Obits: Avis Fife Bradford

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                      Obit for Avis Fife Bradford

Graveside services for Avis Fife Bradford, 98, of Sulphur Springs, Texas, were
held at 11 a.m. Wednesday, March 28, at Lakeview Cemetery, Marietta, with the
Rev. Tommy Higle as the officiating minister.

Mrs. Bradford died Monday morning, March 26, 2001, at the Carriage House Manor
Nursing Home in Sulphur Springs.

The daughter of Joseph Andrew and Ila Middlebrooks Fife, she was born in
Ladonia, Texas, on June 8, 1902, and moved with her family at an early age to
Sanger, Texas, where she graduated from Sanger High School.

She and William E. Bradford Sr. were married on December 28, 1919, in Sanger
and lived most of their married life in Waxahachie, Texas. They moved to
Sulphur Springs in 1994, and he preceded her in death after 75 years of
marriage on December 31, 1994.

Mrs. Bradford was a homemaker and a member of the First United Methodist
Church in Waxahachie, where she and her husband were both actively involved in
the work of the church.

She is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, William E. (Bill) Bradford
Jr. and Patsy of Sulphur Springs; two sisters, Virgie Dillard of Waskom, Texas,
and Wilma Choate of Marietta; three grandchildren and their spouses, Mark and
DeAnne Bradford of Bedford, Texas, Kerry and Allan Gillan of Plano, Texas, and
Kelly and Dwayne Grimes of Sulphur Springs; three great-grandchildren, Andy and
Julianne Bradford of Bedford and Kerry Grimes of Sulphur Springs; two sisters-
in-law, Myra Land of Liberty, Texas, and Willie Bradford of Seven Points,
Texas; and several nieces and nephews.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, a five-year-old son, Joe Frank
Bradford, and a brother, Benjamin Floyd Fife.

Funeral arrangements were under the direction of Tapp Funeral Home of Sulphur
Springs.

Printed in the Marietta Monitor, Friday, March 30, 2001. Love County, OK