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James Ross “Pete” Braxton

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James Ross “Pete” Braxton

Birth
Twitty, Wheeler County, Texas, USA
Death
20 Apr 1992 (aged 80)
Weatherford, Custer County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Friona, Parmer County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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FRIONA - James Ross Braxton, 80, of Weatherford, Okla., died Monday, April 20, 1992, in Weatherford.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Friona with the Rev. Charles Broadhurst, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Friona Cemetery by Ellis Blackwell Funeral Home.

Mr. Braxton was born April 6, 1912 at Twitty and attended school at Shamrock. He worked as a rancher in the Texas Panhandle. He married Christine Southall Sept. 26, 1942, at Friona. He moved to Black, where he and his wife opened a grain elevator in 1946. They retired in 1969 and in 1975 moved to Edmond, Okla., then to Weatherford in 1977. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Friona. He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, York Rite and Khiva Shrine Temple of Amarillo.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, James Braxton of Luther, Okla., and Ray Braxton of Austin; two brothers, A.C. Braxton of Hereford and Jim Braxton of Beulah, Colo.; a sister, Sue Ray of Albuquerque; and a grandchild.

(Published in Amarillo Daily News, April 22, 1992)
FRIONA - James Ross Braxton, 80, of Weatherford, Okla., died Monday, April 20, 1992, in Weatherford.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church in Friona with the Rev. Charles Broadhurst, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Friona Cemetery by Ellis Blackwell Funeral Home.

Mr. Braxton was born April 6, 1912 at Twitty and attended school at Shamrock. He worked as a rancher in the Texas Panhandle. He married Christine Southall Sept. 26, 1942, at Friona. He moved to Black, where he and his wife opened a grain elevator in 1946. They retired in 1969 and in 1975 moved to Edmond, Okla., then to Weatherford in 1977. He was a member of First Baptist Church in Friona. He was a member of the Masonic Blue Lodge, Scottish Rite, York Rite and Khiva Shrine Temple of Amarillo.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, James Braxton of Luther, Okla., and Ray Braxton of Austin; two brothers, A.C. Braxton of Hereford and Jim Braxton of Beulah, Colo.; a sister, Sue Ray of Albuquerque; and a grandchild.

(Published in Amarillo Daily News, April 22, 1992)

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