FRANK BRYAN - Obituary - 13 February 1966, Coke County, TX

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The Robert Lee Observer, 17 February 1966, Robert Lee, TX

	Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon at Robert Lee
Baptist Church for Frank H. Bryan, 74, a Coke County resident since
1920.  Rev. Bill Beaty, Baptist pastor and Douglas Wilkes, local
Church of Christ minister, officiated at the services.  Burial was
in Robet Lee Cemetery under direction of Williams Funeral Home.
	Mr. Bryan died unexpectedly about 10 p.m. Sunday at his home
in Robert Lee.  Death was apparently caused by a heart attack.
	Mr. Bryan was born Sept. 7, 1891 in Shelby County.  He was
married to Miss Birdie Cumbie Jan. 10, 1912, in Wood County.  They
came to Coke County in 1920 and Mr. Bryan engaged in stock farming
and later in the sand and gravel business.  His first wife died in
1962, and he married Mrs. Dena Roberts in Robert Lee on Sept. 6,
1964.  He was a Baptist.
	Survivors include his wife; two sons, Wilson Bryan of Robert
Lee and Lt. Col. Frank Dean Bryan, who is stationed at Oakland Army
Base, Oakland, Calif., and lives in Pleasant Hill, Calif; one step-
daughter, Mrs. Eddie Paul Good of Longview; one sister, Mrs. Ella
Martin of New York, N. Y.; five grandchildren and three great grand-
children.
	Pallbearers were Cumbie Ivey, Homer Carwile, Oscar Kresta,
Lowell Roane, T. M. Wylie, Jr. and Vaughn Davis. 


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