Southampton County Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Bracey, Martin L., 1982 

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MARTIN LUTHER BRACEY

   FRANKLIN - A funeral service for Martin Luther Bracey, 77, was held 
Wednesday at 11 a.m. in Poplar Spring Cemetery by the Rev. Richard T. Dickman. 
Holland-Rideout Funeral Home was in charge.

   Bracey died Friday in a Hampton hospital.

   A native of Franklin, he was a retired engineer for Southwestern Railroad, 
Baltimore, and was a veteran of World War II.  He was a member of Franklin 
Congregational Christian Church.  He was the son of Jacob H. and Sarah Ann 
Garrison Bracey of Southampton County.

   Survivors include the following nieces and nephews; James R. Bracey, Julia 
Pittman, Lucille Whitley Lankford, Edith Whitley Day of Franklin, Shirley B. 
Roberts and David L. Bracey of Wilmington, N.C. and Joyce B. Benny of 
Henderson, N.C., Sarah B. Harris of Emporia and James F. Bracey Jr. of 
Staunton.


Martin Luther BRACEY, retired engineer for Southwestern RR of Baltimore, 
Army veteran of WW-II, 
Franklin native, d. 3 Sep 1982, age 77, 
interred in Poplar Spring Cemetery (Section 2, Plot 27B*), Franklin, 
   8 Sep 1982, 
"The Tidewater News" (Franklin, VA), Sep. 9, 1982, p. 6A 

*Southampton County Historical Society {SCHS} Cemetery Project, 
   Poplar Spring list: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/cemeteries/poplar2.txt 

His mother's obit ("Tidewater News," Nov. 19, 1937) is posted at: 
   http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/southampton/obits/b620s1ob.txt 


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