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© Chickasha Daily Express Chickasha, Oklahoma Tuesday, September 19, 1939, page 2 Robert Jasper Brandon Final services for Robert J. Brandon, 68, who died at 9:30 o'clock, Monday night in a Norman hospital following a short illness, will probably be a 2 o'clock Friday afternoon in the chapel of the Brown Funeral Home. Services for Mr. Brandon, who had been a teacher in schools in and around Grady County for the past 40 years, will not be held until the arrival of three sons who live in California and Chicago. The survivors include the wife, three sons, V.W. Brandon of San Francisco, L.B. Brandon of Los Angeles, and R.C. Brandon of Chicago; and two sisters, Mrs. William Sann of Murphysboro, Tenn., and Mrs. Emery Johnston of Smyrna, Tenn. |
© Chickasha Daily Express Chickasha, Oklahoma Tuesday, September 20, 1932, front page Laura Almeda [Wright] Brandon "County Teacher Passes Monday Mrs R. J. Brandon, Pioneer Instructor of Grady dies Funeral set Wednesday Mrs. R. J. Brandon, age 61, pioneer Grady county school teacher, died at her home, 1323 South Fifth Street, Monday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. Funeral services are to be held at 2 o'clock, Wednesday afternoon at the Twelfth Street Baptist church with Rev. C.A. Smith in charge. Burial is to be made in the Rose Hill cemetery. Mrs. Brandon and her husband have been teaching in the Grady county schools for the past twenty years. Mrs. Brandon was recognized as one of the outstanding primary teachers connected with the schools of this county. She was well known, having been an instructor in numerous schools over the county. Mrs. Brandon was born in Tennessee and was a member ot the Twelfth Street Baptist church of this city. She has been in ill health for six months, having been unable to complete her term at the Pleasant View School last spring. Mr. Brandon is in charge of the Pleasant View school this year. Mrs. Brandon is survived by her husband, three sons, Virgil and Russell of Hammond, Ind., and Lillard of Los Angeles, Calif., and two sisters, one living in Tennessee and the other in Virginia. Virgil and Russell recently returned to Indiana, after visiting their mother here and will be unable to return for the funeral. Lillard was at his mother's bedside at the time of her death. |