Dewie Bradford

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Biography

Obituary, Dewie Bradford 1924-2010

Dewie Bradford, age 86, of Mangum, passed away Friday afternoon, July 23, 2010, at Grace Living Center in Mangum.

Mr. Bradford was born in Leonard, Texas, on March 14, 1924, to Wiley Fate and Alta Mae (Whitworth) Bradford. After living in Leonard for several years, where he began school and farmed with his dad, the family moved to Greer County in the early 1940's. With his mother dying, while he was a teenager, he quit school and continued helping his father farm. On November 7, 1945, he married Renny Mae Westmoreland, in Wellington, Texas and they spent the next sixty-four years together. Setting up their first home in the Wild Cat Community, a short time later, they moved to the Duke area. After their house burned, they moved to the Russell Community, where they lived until moving to Mangum in 2005.

Preceded in death by his daughter, Linda Gail Rice, two sisters, Bonnie Miller and Louise Stansbury, one brother and one sister at birth, and his parents, he is survived by his wife, Renny Mae Bradford; five children, Phyllis Stalcup and husband Gary of Lewisville, Texas, Jerry Don Bradford and wife Susan of Russell, Kenneth Wayne Bradford and wife Vangie of Geary, Oklahoma, Doris Faye Bradford of Mangum and Dewey James Bradford and wife Shary of Vinson; three sisters, Lucy Langford of Oklahoma City, Dorothy Westmoreland of Oklahoma City and Helen Moon of Mangum; one brother, James (Jack) Bradford; eleven grandchildren; twenty-two great grandchildren along with many other relatives and friends.

Funeral services for Dewie Bradford will be held at 10 a.m., Tuesday, July 27, 2010, at Russell Baptist Church, with Elders Conway Wood and Glenn Rooker officiating. Interment will follow at Russell Cemetery under the direction of Greer Funeral Home of Mangum.

Census

1930 Census. Precinct 6, Grayson county, Texas.

Wiley F Bradford Head M 29 Tennessee;

Alta M Bradford Wife F 23 Texas;

Dewie Bradford Son M 6 Texas;

Lucy M Bradford Daughter F 4 Texas;

Dorothy G Bradford Daughter F 2 Texas.

1940 Census. Justice Precinct 7, Grayson county, Texas.

Fate W Bradford Head M 39 Tennessee;

Alta May Bradford Wife F 32 Texas;

Dewey Bradford Son M 16 Texas;

Lucy May Bradford Daughter F 14 Texas;

Dorothy Jean Bradford Daughter F 12 Texas;

Louise Bradford Daughter F 9 Texas;

Bonnie Ray Bradford Daughter F 7 Texas;

Helen Elizabeth Bradford Daughter F 6 Texas;

James Wiley Bradford Son M 4 Texas;

Joe L Bradford Son M 2 Texas.

Sources

• "United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:HYXM-GPZ : accessed 14 March 2019), Dewie Bradford in household of Wiley F Bradford, Precinct 6, Grayson, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 55, sheet 3A, line 29, family 49, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 2337; FHL microfilm 2,342,071.
• "United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KWVR-FT4 : 13 March 2018), Dewey Bradford in household of Fate W Bradford, Justice Precinct 7, Grayson, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 91-57, sheet 4A, line 27, family 65, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 4044.
• Bradford Family documents
• www.GreerFuneral.com
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 9 October 2018), memorial page for Dewie Bradford (14 Mar 1924–23 Jul 2010), Find A Grave Memorial no. 68843680, citing Russell Cemetery, Russell, Greer County, Oklahoma, USA ; Maintained by Robert Wedgeworth (Cryptkeeper) (contributor 47313179) .