Obit for: Ruel M. Branstetter (b652) - Payne County OK

Submitted by: Pam Hodges Crain, pcrain58@pldi.net
Transcribed by: Betty Jean Cook Tautfest   12/12/2002
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MR. BRANSTETTER

      
Ruel M. Branstetter, 72, 420 N. Central, a longtime Cushing resident and 
retired City of Cushing employee, was pronounced dead on arrival at the 
Cushing Hospital at 8:30 p.m. Thursday.

The funeral service will be at 10 a.m. Monday in the Memorial Chapel of 
the Davis Funeral Home, with Rev. L. A. Sadler, officiating.

Interment, under direction of Davis Funeral Home, will be in the Fairlawn 
cemetery.

Mr. Branstetter, son of the late Mr. And Mrs. Mark Branstetter, was born 
on August 7, 1897 at Red Fork, Oklahoma. He came to Cushing with his 
parents in 1910 and he had lived here since that time.

He was married to Lola Knohler, August 31, 1930 at San Antonio, Texas.

Mr. Branstetter was employed by the City of Cushing from 1931 until his 
retirement in 1965.

He was a member of the Cushing I.O.O.F. Lodge and the Cushing Masonic 
Lodge.

Relatives who survive are his wife, Mrs. Lola Branstetter of the home, one 
son, Lee Ray Branstetter of Boulder, Colo., one brother, G.M. Branstetter 
of Nowata, one sister, Mrs. C. K. Burnett of West Covina, Calif., two 
grandchildren and other relatives.
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