Meddie Mae Freeman Bradley

© Cheyenne Star

03 Apr 2008

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Meddie Mae Freeman was born November 19, 1907 in Boles, Arkansas to Ida Bell Pinnick and William L. Freeman. She passed away March 31, 2008 at Sayre, Oklahoma at the age of 100 years, 4 months and 12 days.

Meddie's parents passed away when she was 16 and she moved to Okemah, Oklahoma and began living with her aunt.

She married Thomas Jackson Bradley at Okemah, Oklahoma on March 3, 1925.

They lived in Mason, Oklahoma before moving to the Cheyenne community in 1943.

Meddie worked at the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital as a nurse's aide and continued until her retirement.

She moved to the Cheyenne Nursing Center before moving to the Hensley Nursing Home in June of 2005 to make her home.

She was a member of the Freewill Baptist Church in Okemah, Oklahoma where she taught Sunday School and played the piano.

She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; three sons, Glen, Sam and Billy; ten brothers and sisters; one great grandson, Chris Bradley; one son-in-law, Rebel Laxton; and one daughter-in-law, Barbara Bradley.

Services will be held Thursday, April 3, 2008 at 10:30 a.m. at Cheyenne First Baptist Church officiated by Michael Larsen and Jay Farber.

Burial will be at Cheyenne Cemetery under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service, Cheyenne.

Survivors include three daughters, Gerry Bowers and husband Charles of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Erma Jean Barber of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; Betty Laxton of Sayre, Oklahoma; one son, Jack Bradley of Norman, Oklahoma; three daughters-in-law, Wanda Bradley and Ruthie Bradley, both of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; and Romona Bradley of Red Oak, Texas; fifteen grandchildren; twenty eight great grandchildren; and host of other relatives and friends.