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Oran Dixon Bratton - Madison Parish, Louisiana

From Tallulah Madison Journal, September 14, 1988

Funeral services for Mr. Oran Dixon Bratton, 92, of Memphis were Thursday, Sept. 1 at Memphis Funeral 
Home Guardian Poplar Chapel. Burial was in Memorial Park.

Bratton, a longtime Memphis lumberman and a founder of the Memphis Union Mission, died Aug. 30 at 
Methodist Hospital. Ile was a former resident of Tallulah, and was associated with Chicago Mill.

Mr. Bratton was a member and an elder of Evergreen Presbyterian Church, past president of the 
Chickasaw Country Club, the Lumberman's Club, and the Southern Hardwood Traffic Association. He 
was a Mason and a Shriner, a member of the Memphis and Shelby County Port Commission, chairman of 
the board of Color Craft of Delaware and co-owner of Southern Laminating Co.

He was one of the founders of the Memphis Union Mission and served on its board of directors, as 
well as on the board for Memphis Boys' Town. He was a former member of the Home Mission Board of 
the Memphis Presbytery and helped build eight Presbyterian Churches in Memphis while serving in 
that capacity.

Survivors include his wife, Peggy Gilbert Bratton of Memphis; a daughter, Mrs. Jane Bratton Betz 
of Memphis; six grandchildren and six great-grandchildren.