| Brackeen, Verda Dean 222068 |
| Birth: 08/17/1878 Death: 01/01/1951 Marriage: |
| Cemetery: Evergreen (11-46-04) |
| Record Source: The Paris News, Researcher-Submitted Info |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Tuesday, 2 Jan 1951, p. 5: “Mrs. Verda Brackeen Dies in Hot Springs - Mrs. Verda Brackeen, 72, widow of Luther Brackeen, died Monday at 1:15 p.m. in Hot Springs, Ark. She had made her home here with her sister, Mrs. Theo Scrivner, Sr., 2200 Clarksville St., who died last September, but was in Hot Springs with her daughter, Mrs. W. H. (Bill) Bray. The body will arrive here Wednesday at 1:20 p.m. on the Frisco train. Funeral services at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home will be conducted at 2 p.m. and interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Brackeen was a daughter of the late J. F. and Matilda Ann Frazier Dean of Marvin community. Her daughter, Mrs. Bray, and two grandchildren survive.” THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, 3 Jan 1951, p. 8: “Brackeen Funeral Held - Funeral services for Mrs. Verda Dean Brackeen, 72, widow of Luther Brackeen, were set for 2 o’clock Wednesday afternoon at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home, the Rev. Gordon Casad of First Methodist Church, officiating. Burial was arranged in Evergreen Cemetery, pallbearers being Ernest Johnston, Morgan Johnson, Leon Moss, Oscar Bowen, Fate Bray and Dade Rogers. Mrs. Brackeen, who had made her home here with her sister, the late Mrs. Theo Scrivner, died Monday in Hot Springs. Ark., at the home of her daughter Mrs. W. H. Bray.“ From the records of Lamar #258 United Daughters of the Confederacy: She was born in Lamar County, a daughter of John Stephens Dean, a Confederate soldier who served in Co. D, 62nd Regiment, Tennessee Infantry and died 1 May 1911. Verda was a member of Lamar Chapter #258 UDC under her father’s CSA record. See Johns Stephens Dean record. Daughter of John Stephens Dean and Ann Matilda Frazier Dean. She married Luther Brackeen in 1899 who died in 1902. Buried next to Luther Brackeen. |