Osage County, Oklahoma, Obituary:  CLAUDE ADAM BROMLEY

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CLAUDE ADAM "C.A." BROMLEY

OCNS - Archives - Claude Adam "C.A." Bromley, 93, longtime resident of the 
Pawhuska, Oklahoma, area, died April 15, 1994, following an extended 
illness.

Funeral services were held April 19, 1994, in the First Christian Church, 
Pawhuska, with Reverend William Morgan officiating.   Interment was in the 
Pawhuska Cemetery, where American Legion Posts presented Military Rites.

Mr. Bromley was born May 2, 1900, in a sod hut near Turnersville, Texas, 
the son of Mr. & Mrs. Charles Bromley.   He married Grace Branstetter Fink 
in Pawhuska on February 2, 1947.

He was a member of the First Christian Church, a thirty-second degree 
Mason, a member of the American Legion, Lions Club and was a life-time 
member of the Cowboy Hall of fame in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

Although C.A. retired from Bareco Refinery in Barnsdall, Oklahoma, where 
he worked for thirty-nine years, he was in his heart a cowboy and an 
artist.   While at Bareco, he ran his own herd of cattle and after he 
retired (from Bareco), he worked on ranches around Pawhuska and for many 
summers he was Chuck Wagon Cook on the 6666 Ranch in South Texas.   
Although he never had any formal training, he was an artist - his art was 
unique.   He made perfect scale models of Chuck Wagons, Conestoga wagons 
and buckboards in minute detail.   These wagons have been collected by 
many of the Cowboy Artists of America.  He was honored as a lifetime 
member of the Cowboy Hall of Fame in Oklahoma City.

Surviving were his wife, Grace Bromley of the home in Pawhuska; a 
daughter, Eunice Diamler of Salt Lake City, Utah; three sons, C.M. "Bud" 
Bromley of Salt Lake City, Darrell Fink of New Orleans, Louisiana, and 
Robert Fink of San Antonio, Texas; a sister, Anne Busch of Las Animas, 
Colorado; eight grandchildren and sixteen great grandchildren.

Johnson Funeral Directors were in charge of arrangements.