Bette B. Brannan

Marietta Monitor

27 Aug 1999, pg 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Bette B. Brannan of Falconhead were Thursday at 10:00 a.m. in the Falconhead Christian Fellowship Chapel with Dr. Glen Pool officiating.

Born September 13, 1922, at Ardmore, Mrs. Brannan died August 23, 1999, in Mercy Health Love County, Marietta, at the age of 76. She was the daughter of Clarence and Waneta Larner Beindorf.

A resident of Love County most of her life, she married William R. "Bill" Brannan on February 15, 1943. Mrs. Brannan was a housewife and an artist. She was a very active member of the Falconhead Ladies Golf Association and updated their mascot. Mrs. Brannan was also editor of the Golf Book and the Tale Feathers newsletter. She did calligraphy for numerous signs and postcards and was founder of the Falconhead Memorial Garden.

Designer of the theme posters for Love County's annual Frontier Days Celebration, she also helped create the Frontier Days flag. Mrs. Brannan assisted with the illustrations for The History of Love County, Volume 1. Mrs. Brannan was a former officer of the Oklahoma Cowbelles Association. She attended the Falconhead Christian Fellowship Chapel.

Survivors include her husband, Bill Brannan of the home at Falconhead; two sons and daughter-in-law, Rick and Julie Brannan of Marietta, and Bruce Brannan of Austin, Texas; two brothers, Ray Beindorf of Bel Air, California, and Bill "Boots" Beindorf of Reynolds Plantation, Georgia; and four grandchildren, Marcia Pierce, Sara Brannan and Cathy Brannan of Marietta and Abby Brannan of Fort Worth, Texas.

Mrs. Brannan was preceded in death by her parents; and a grandson, Zack Brannan on March 3, 1999.

Interment in Lakeview Cemetery was directed by Kennedy Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Jim Johnson, Wade Orsburn, Andy Anderson, Tim Garner, Charlie Durie and John Marshall. Honorary bearers included Dick Cochran, Willis Wheat, Bob Jones, Tom Stephens, Tom Wharton, Dick Banks and Hector Favreau.

The family has requested that contributions be made to the Falconhead Memorial Garden, c/o 220 Golf Club Drive, Burneyville, OK 73430.