Guy Ervin Brothers

Submitted by: Leila Evett

As quietly as he had lived, Guy Brothers died the morning of June 10, 1975 in a hospital at Dumas, Texas. Funeral services were held at Hunt's Memorial Methodist Church in Dumas, Texas with burial in Kiowa Cemetery at Hammon, Oklahoma Thursday, June 12th.

His was not an easy life, but a very rich and wholesome one. He was born to pioneer parents in Oklahoma Teritory in the Coulter Community on 20 March 1900. Guy had to assume the responsibility of the household when his widowed mother became ill.

On Jun 7, 1923, he married the young school teacher, Gerogia Ford from Hammon, who was teaching in the Crawford School. Guy and Georgia shared their home with his two younger brothers Everett and Bill.

Over the years, they lived in several communities in western Oklahoma--Crawford, Kiowa, Reydon, Grimes, Sandstone and Moorewood. It was in these communities they raised their three sons, Ray, Gene, and Alan as well as a nephew Billy Shay.

After the children had left home, Guy and his wife, Georgia, moved to Fairfield, Missouri in 1951 where they farmed until they retired to Dumas, Texas in 1970.

Though Guy's responsibilities were heavy, he was never too busy to listen to and help his neighbors. The host of friends, and his families' affection attest to his success.

He is survived in death by his widow, Georgia of the home; three sons, Ray of Alva, Oklahoma, Gene of booker, Texas and Alan of Dumas, Texas; three brothers, Everett of Sayre, Oklahoma, Dick of Cheyenne, Oklahoma and Bill of Wichita, Kansas; eleven grandchildren, four great grandchildren and a host of nieces and nephews.

Note: The parents of Guy Brothers interred here were Joseph I. Brothers and Elizabeth "Betty" Webb who were living in the Coulter Community in 1900. Mr. Brothers was the first postmaster of that post office. Other children of J. I. and Betty Brothers were; Charlesy, Dick, Ollie, Mae, Gilbert, Everett and Will R. Brothers.

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