Celia Bratcher services Wednesday
Funeral services for Celia Bonnell Bratcher, 77, West Plains, will be 2 p.m. Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at Carter Funeral Home Chapel, West Plains, with Minister Pat Casey officiating.
Mrs. Bratcher died 8:40 a.m. Monday, July 1, 2002, at Beverly Healthcare, West Plains. She was born April 7, 1925 in Ozark County, the daughter of Robert and Rebecca Collins Ford.
In 1941, she was married in Howell County to Charles Bratcher.
Mrs. Bratcher was a homemaker.
Survivors include three children, Robert J. Bratcher, West Plains, Bonnie Edwards, Belton, and Mary Leigh, Mtn. View; one sister, Marie Moss, West Plains; one half-sister, Alice Foley, state of Iowa; one half-brother, Frankie Giesler, Springfield; several other half-brothers and half-sisters; four grandchildren, Brian Killion and wife, Cherrie, Belton, Clyde Benjamin Bratcher and wife, Linda, Church Point, La.; and Kimberly Ann Thomspon and husband, Dennis, and Rollind Levi Bratcher and wife, Amanda, all of west Plains; 13 great-grandchildren. Quinton Michael Bratcher, state of California, Casey Lynn Bratcher and Troy Robert Bratcher, both of Church Pint, Tori Collins, Melissa Thompson, Tiffanie Bratcher, Stephanie Bratcher, Leah Marie Bratcher, Phillis Arlene Bratcher and Kameron Levi Bratcher, all of West Plains, and Janna Smith, Audrey Killion and Coldan Killion, all of Belton.
She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; one infant son; and two brothers, George Ford, and an infant brother.
Burial will be in Pottersville Cemetery under the direction of Carter Funeral Home Inc. of West Plains.