Isle of Wight County-Newport News City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bracey, Robert A., 1945 

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ROBERT ARTHUR BRACEY 

R.A. BRACEY HELD SUICIDE - Last Rites At 3 Sunday at Boykins [sic*] 

  A verdict of suicide was returned yesterday by Dr. Louis Loeb, acting 
coorner [sic; coroner], after the body of R.A. Bracey had been found in the 
Bowler's Auto exchange office at 35th St. and Huntington Ave, dead from a 
gunshot wound. 

  The body was sent yesterday to Boykins, where funeral services and 
interment are to be held at 3 Sunday afternoon.  Further details of the last 
rites were not known here last night. 

  The body was discovered about 8:20 a.m. yesterday by a porter cleaning the 
room.  It was lying, Detective Capt. W.F. Peach said, on some automobile seat 
cushions on the floor and a .38-calibre German-made automatic pistol lay 
beside the corpse.  A bullet, Peach said, had passed through the heart and 
emerged from the body in the back.  Investigation was made by Peach and 
Detective Lt. Herman F. Drummond. 

  Mr. Bracey lived at 518 G. St., Copeland Park.  His exact age was not known, 
but was estimated at between 35 and 40.  He was an automobile salesman 
employed by the Bowler concern.  The Bowler management said that so far as was 
known, he was normal except for having suffered considerably recently from a 
sinus infection. 

  Surviving are his wife, three children, and several brothers and sisters at 
his native town of Windsor. 

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ROBERT ARTHUR BRACEY 

  SUFFOLK - Sept. 29 - Funeral service for Robert Arthur Bracey, 40, of 
Newport News, who died on Wednesday, will be conducted Sunday at Antioch 
Christian Church at 3 p.m. with the Rev. T. Fred Wright officiating.  Burial 
will be in the church cemetery. 

  Mr. Bracey is survived by his wife, Mrs. Fannie Howell Bracey, three small 
children, Betty Anne, R.A. Jr. and William Lee Bracey; his mother, Mrs. Nettie 
F. Bracey, of Williamsburg; four brothers, C.A. and L.C. Bracey, of Windsor; 
L.R. Bracey, of Ivor, and Staff Sergt. James H. Bracey, now over-seas; two 
sisters, Mrs. A.L. Goodrich, of Smithfield, and Mrs. A.J. [Parr], of Suffolk. 

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Robert Bracey Buried Sunday 

  Funeral services for Robert Arthur Bracey, 40, of Newport News, who died 
Wednesday, were conducted at Antioch Christian Church with the Rev. T Fred 
Wright officiating.  Burial was in the church cemetery. 

  Mr. Bracey is survived by his wife, Mrs. Fannie Howell Bracey; three small 
children, Betty Anne, R.A. Jr., and William Lee Bracey; his mother Mrs. Nettie 
F. Bracey, of Williamsburg; four brothers, C.A. and L.C. Bracey of Windsor, 
L.R. Bracey of Ivor, and Staff Sergeant James H. Bracey, now overseas; two 
sisters, Mrs. A.L. Goodrich of Smithfield and Mrs. A.J. [Parr] of Suffolk. 

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ROBERT ARTHUR BRACEY 

   Robert Arthur Bracey, 40, died suddenly September 26, at his home in 
Newport News, survived by his wife, Mrs. Fannie Bracey, and three small 
children, Betty Ann, Robert Arthur, Jr., and William Lee Bracey, all of 
Newport News; his mother, Mrs. Nettie F. Bracey; four brothers, C.A. and L.E. 
Bracey of Windsor, L.R. Bracey of Ivor and H.J. Bracey, U.S. Army, now 
overseas, and two sisters, Mrs. A.L. Goodrich of Rushmere and Mrs. A.J. Parr 
of Suffolk. 

   The body was brought to the Purviance Funeral Home in Wakefield where it 
remained until the funeral, rites being conducted from Antioch Christian 
Church, with the Rev. Fred Wright and Rev. Murdock Butler officiating.  Active 
pallbearers were T. Holt Brantley, Walter Johnson, Bill Boyette, W.L. Holland, 
H.V. Thomas, C.E. Leach, E.R. Bowler, Sr., R.A. Cagner and E.R. Bowler, Jr. 
Burial was made in Antioch cemetery, there being a large crowd in attendance. 


Robert Arthur BRACEY, of Newport News, auto salesman, 
b. 2 Jul 1905, Zuni, IoW.Co., suicide 26 Sep 1945, at work, Newport News, 
interred in Antioch Christian Church Cemetery*, near Windsor, 30 Sep 1945, 
"Daily Press" (Newport News, VA), Sep. 27, 1945, p. 3; 
"Virginian-Pilot" (Norfolk, VA), Sep. 30, 1945, p. 26; 
"Smithfield (VA) Times," Vol. 27, No. 24, Wed., Oct. 3, 1945, p. 1; 
"Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Fri., Oct. 5, 1945, p. 1 

*Additional information: 

Antioch list, an extension of the Southampton County Historical Society 
   {SCHS} Cemetery Project: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/cemeteries/antioch.txt 
   Isle of Wight County Historical Society {IWCHS} 
   Grave Site Survey Task Force {GSSTF} report #20: 
   http://www.iwchs.com/Cemetery-Reports.html 

D.Cert. 18612 (N.News #512) 

A photo of his gravestone is posted with Find a Grave Memorial #104920819. 

His parents, "Bob" Robert Sisco & Nettie Frances (PIERCE) BRACEY, 
   are also buried there. 

His father's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald" & "Tidewater News," June 1933) 
   are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b620r2ob.txt 

His mother's obits ("Suffolk News-Herald," "Tidewater News" & "Smithfield 
   Times," Mar. 1950) are posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/isleofwight/obits/b620n2ob.txt 


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