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Marjorie Keaton Bratches, a former Cushing resident now of Oklahoma City, passed away Saturday, May 29, 2010 at the age of 89 years.
The daughter of the late Freddie Haskell Flowers and Vada D. Dunbar Flowers, Marjorie was born on May 3, 1921 in Altoona, KS, and was raised and educated in Altoona.
The family moved to Wichita where she attended “Business Prep College”, and later went to work for Beech Aircraft where she met her husband J.C. “Bus” Keaton. They were married in 1942 and to this union two sons, Steve and Michael were born. He preceded her in death in 1966.
In 1977 while living in Oklahoma City, she met and married Harold F. “Hal” Bratches and he preceded her in death in 2005.
She was a member of the Chapel Hill Methodist Church in Oklahoma City.
She enjoyed church work and volunteering in the community.
She is survived by two sons, Steve Keaton and his wife Margaret of Oklahoma City and Mike Keaton and his wife Loretta of Denton, TX; one step-daughter, Susan Schell of Oklahoma City; 5 grandchildren; 8 great-grandchildren and other relatives and friends including a special friend Morris Forsyth of Altoona, KS.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 10 A.M. in the Memorial Chapel of the Davis Funeral Home with Pastor Kevin Clouse, officiating.
Burial will follow in the Fairlawn Cemetery.
