Hembree Allen "Dick" Brothers
Tombstone Photo
Silent Home Cemetery
Roll, Roger Mills County, OK

© Karen Harman

Hembree Allen "Dick" Brothers

© Cheyenne Star

Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Hembree Allen "Dick" Brothers of Cheyenne died April 1, 1976 in the Roger Mills Memorial Hospital following an extended illness.

Services were Saturday at the United Methodist Church in Cheyenne at 2:00 p.m. Officiating was Rev. Gilbert Brothers of Alva, nephew of the deceased.

Born June 26, 1898 at Velma, Mr. Brothers married Addie Taylor at Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, October 1945.

He moved to Cheyenne in 1970 from Elgin.

He had served in the U.S. Army 28 1/2 years as a Master Sergeant.

He was a member of the Christian Church and was a World War II veteran.

Survivors are his wife of the home; two daughters, Mrs. Josephine Roark of Cheyenne; Mrs. Phyllis June Nail of Naples, Florida; two sons, John E. of Oklahoma City; J. D. of Henrietta, Texas; two brothers, Everett of Sayre; William of Wichita, Kansas; twenty grandchildren; and eighteen great grandchildren.

Interment with military rites was in the Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Scroggins and Son Funeral Home.