Georgia Alice Ford Brothers

Submitted by: Leila Evett

Georgia Ford Brothers died in a Wichita, Kansas hospital following hip surgery on Wednesday morning 21 December 1977 just two weeks after her 77th birthday and sixteen days after the death of her older brother, Dennis Ford.

Georgia was born in Oklahoma Territory near Cloud Chief to William Alfred Ford and Addie Rhodes. At three weeks, she moved with her parents to the Kiowa Community, southwest of Hammon in Roger Mills County. Soon thereafter, her mother became ill with tuberculosis and she was left in the care of Nancy Lacey, a neighbor, when only six months old. She lived in the Lacey home after her mother's death until 30 July 1902 when her father married Maggie Lacey, Nancy's daughter. No closer relationship ever existed between mother and daughter than between Maggie and Georgia.

In 1922 when teaching school at Crawford, Oklahoma, Georgia met and the following year married Guy E. Brothers. To this union were born four children. The Brothers family lived in several different communities in Western Oklahoma (Crawford, Kiowa, near Hammon, Reydon, Grimes, Sandstone and Moorewood) Fairview, Missouri and Texas Panhandle (Dumas and Booker). Georgia always made friends with her neighbors because she was always a friend to them.

Georgia was preceded in death by an infant daughter, her husband, parents, two brothers, one sister and two grandchildren.

Survivors include three sons; Gibert Ray Brothers of Alva, Ok, Gene Brothers of Booker, Texas and Alan Brothers of Amarillo, Texas; three sisters May Zelle Brothers of Wichita, Kansas; Lena Ford and Leila Evett, both of Oklahoma City and an aunt, May Lacey, also of Oklahoma City; ten grandchildren and six great grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews and cousins and a host of friends.

Funeral services were held in Martin Funeral Home Chapel at Elk City at 2:00 p.m. Friday 23 December 1977 with Reverend Jim Teeter, Booker, Texas officiating. Interment was in Kiowa Cemetery on the Lacey homestead.

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