Bratton - Mills
MILLS BRATTON
Source: Crawfordsville Journal Review 11-Dec-1972 page 3
WINGATE, Ind. (CNS) — Mills M. Bratton, 95, of Wingate, died at 1:45 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 10, 1972) at the Culver Hospital in Crawfordsville. He had been hospitalized a day and had resided at the Ben-Hur Retirement Home in Crawfordsville since 1966. Born May 2, 1877, in Elmdale, he was the son of Samuel and Hanna Quick Bratton. In 1902, he married Grace Thomas, who died in 1931. In 1941, he married Dora Wheeler, who died in 1966. He was a member of the Pleasant Hill United Church of Christ at Wingate and had served as trustee for many years. He received his 50-year pin from the Knights of Pythias Lodge at Wingate in 1962 and was a minuteman and the last secretary of the Coal Creek Horse Thieves Detective Association, joining the organization in 1915. In 1954, he was awarded a certificate of distinction by the Indiana Farm Bureau for 35 years of outstanding work for the organization. He was a director of the Federal Land Bank of Louisville, Ky. He worked in the traffic department of the Indiana State Fair for many years and later was supervisor of the boys dormitory at the 4-H Building at the Indiana State Fair. He was educated in the Coal Creek Township Schools. Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. Opal Barnard of Indianapolis; a granddaughter, Mrs. Joan Eck of Zionsville; and two great-grandsons. He was preceded in death by a son, Maurice, in 1948. Services will be at 11 a.m. EST Wednesday at the Servies-Thomas Funeral Home in Waynetown, with the Rev. Homer Hunsinger officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery at Wingate. Visitation will be at the funeral home after 12 noon Tuesday.--waw