Obit of Guy Ervin Brothers (b636) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 10 Jan 2001 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Surnames: Brothers, Ford, Shay As quietly as he had lived Guy Ervin Brothers died the morning of 10 June 1975 in a hospital at Dumas, Texas. Funeral services were held at Hunt's Memorial Methodist church in Dumas, Texas with burial in Kiowa Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, Thursday, Une 12, 1975. His was not an easy life, but a very rich and whoesome one. He was born to pioneer parents in Oklahoma Territory in the Coulter Community on 20 March, 1900. Guy had to assume the responsibiltiy of the household when his widowed mother became ill. In 1923 he married the young school teacher, Georgia Ford from Hammon, who was tgeaching in the Crawford School. Guy and Georgia shared their home with his two younger brothers, Everett and Bill. Over the years, they lived in several communities in Western Oklahoma-- Crawford, Kiowa, (Hammon), Reydon, Grimes, Sandstone (Herring) and Moorewood. It was in these communities, they raised their three son, Ray, Gene and Alan, as well as a nephew, Billy Shay. After the children had left home, Guy and his wife, Georgia moved to Fairview, Missouri in 1951 where they farmed until they retired to Dumas, Texas in 1970. Though Guy's responsibilities were heavy he was never too busy to listen to and help his neighbors. The host of friends. The host of friends, and his families' affection attest to his success. He is survived in death by his widow, Georgia, of tghe home; three sons Ray of Alva, Oklahoma, Gene of Booker, Texas and Alan of Dumas, Texas; three brothers, Everett of Sayre, Oklahoma, Dick of Cheyenne, Oklahoma and Bill of Wichita, Kansas; eleven grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html