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Annie Brotherton

Published Wednesday, June 1, 2005 in the Nevada County Picayune

Mrs. Annie Lee Tinsy Phillips Brotherton, 84, of Blevins, died Sunday, May 22, 2005, in Christus St. Michael Health System in Texarkana.

She was born on April 2, 1921, in Hempstead County to Claud A. and Gladys Vaughn Phillips. She was a 1940 graduate from Little Rock Beauty School with her cosmetology degree and a retired bookkeeper for Blevins Public School System with 19 years of service having received her associates business degree from Red River Vocational Technical School in Hope.

She was a treasurer of the Prescott VFW Ladies Auxiliary since its inception; member of Marlbrook Cemetery Association; Blevins High School Reunion Committee member; avid bingo player; and loved her baking, gardening and decorating. She was the Sundowners Lions Club Pig Roast Mascot in Sheridan, Wyoming for several years.

She was preceded in death by her husband, George Hap Brotherton, who died in 1963 and by one sister, Thelma Warnkon.

Her survivors include: one son, Robert H. Brotherton and Margo of Sheridan, Wyoming; one daughter, Gladys Ann Turner of Blevins; one brother, R.D. Son Phillips of Blevins; four grandchildren, Sharon Turner of Fort Smith, Michelle Turner Dean of Nashville, Kris Dahl of Arvado, Colorado, and Megan Brotherton of Sheridan, Wyoming; five great-grandchildren, Fawn, Heather, Cory, Amaya and Gabriel.

Funeral services were 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 25, 2005, at Brazzel/Cornish Funeral Home Chapel in Prescott with VFW Chaplain Carl Ray officiating. Burial followed in Marlbrook Cemetery in Blevins. Arrangements by Brazzel/Cornish Funeral Home in Prescott.

Family received friends Tuesday, May 24, 2005 from 6-8 p.m. at Brazzel/Cornish Funeral Home in Prescott.


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