Obit of William Ray 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, Webb, Roark, Miles Will Ray Brothers, born to Joseph Israel and Betty Webb Brothers in Christoval, Texas on January 23, 1912, the youngest of 10 children, died Friday, August 16, 1985 in Wichita, Kansas, where he had made his home since 1957. After the death of his widowed mother in 1923, he lived in cheyenne, Wyoming with his maternal grandmother and uncle and spent part of his teen age years with his older brother, Guy Brothers, in Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. He was mature for his years and before Social Security age identity, worked as an adult earning his own way while still a boy. During the depression years he earned his livelihood as a willing worker at any job available--ranch work in Wyoming and Nevada, construction work in Calif. and Colo., Union Pacific Railroad, and in the oil fields of Texas. He was working on the war time construction of the Big Inch Pipeline with Engineering Company of Houston when WW IUI began. He was married to May Zelle Ford of Hammon, Oklahoma on August 29, 1942. He was in miitary service at Fort Sill, Oklahoma in 1943 as part of the cadre when he asked for oversea assignment. He was in england in time to make the D Day crossing. He served with the 7th Corp during invasion into Germany. He returned to the U.S. in December 1945. Will lived in Oklahoma City, where his three children were born, and worked at Tinker Air Force Base, then at Fruehauf Trailer co. He transferred to Tulsa in 1953 with Fruehauf. He moved to Wichita, Kansas in 1957, where he began a career as an outside salesman for industrial hardward, whic he continued into 1985, when illness forced his retirement. Perhaps because of his own youth he was always sensitive to the needs of the confused and displaced yount people and extneded his sympathy and support. However, with his experience of hardc work and struggle, he found it difficult to comprehend those who did not try or, want to work. Will was preceded in death by his parents, brothers and sisters. Survivors include: his wife, May Zelle and son, Tim of Wichita, Kansas, Son, Mike and daughter-in-law, Sally of Minneapolis, Minn, his daughter, Willam and son-in-law, John Miles, and granddaughter, Lynn Ann Miles, of Staten Island, N.Y., daughter-in-law, Cidny and grandson, Billy Brothers of Norman, Oklahoma. Also his niece, Jo Roark of Cheyenne and a sister-in-law, Mrs. Addie Brothers, and many other friends and relatives. Memorial services were held at the Kiowa Cemetery, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html