Ted M. Bradford, 71, Ridgeley, died at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday at Freeman Neosho Hospital, Neosho, after a long illness.
Mr. Bradford was born July 20, 1924, at Seligman. He was a lifetime area resident, living in Ridgeley for 42 years. He and his wife owned the Ridgeley Grocery Store for 10 years. He was a member of Ridgeley Church of Christ.
He married Margie Stephenson on Aug. 15, 1942, at Cassville. She survives.
Additional survivors include a son, Bob Bradford, Wheaton; four daughters, Linda Beavers, Joplin, Pat Savage, Ridgeley, and Janie Bateman and Barbara Wilber, both of Rogers, Ark.; four brothers, E.W. Bradford, Jr., Seligman, Corky Bradford, Lake Charles, La., Jim Bradford, Pikeville, N.C., and Kenneth Bradford, Queen City, Texas; a sister, Marjorie Bagwell, Cassville; 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Wheaton Funeral Home. Malcom Scott will officiate. Burial will be in Rocky Comfort (MO) Cemetery.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Joplin Globe
Dec. 1995
Mr. Bradford was born July 20, 1924, at Seligman. He was a lifetime area resident, living in Ridgeley for 42 years. He and his wife owned the Ridgeley Grocery Store for 10 years. He was a member of Ridgeley Church of Christ.
He married Margie Stephenson on Aug. 15, 1942, at Cassville. She survives.
Additional survivors include a son, Bob Bradford, Wheaton; four daughters, Linda Beavers, Joplin, Pat Savage, Ridgeley, and Janie Bateman and Barbara Wilber, both of Rogers, Ark.; four brothers, E.W. Bradford, Jr., Seligman, Corky Bradford, Lake Charles, La., Jim Bradford, Pikeville, N.C., and Kenneth Bradford, Queen City, Texas; a sister, Marjorie Bagwell, Cassville; 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Wheaton Funeral Home. Malcom Scott will officiate. Burial will be in Rocky Comfort (MO) Cemetery.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Joplin Globe
Dec. 1995
Ted M. Bradford, 71, Ridgeley, died at 12:33 a.m. Wednesday at Freeman Neosho Hospital, Neosho, after a long illness.
Mr. Bradford was born July 20, 1924, at Seligman. He was a lifetime area resident, living in Ridgeley for 42 years. He and his wife owned the Ridgeley Grocery Store for 10 years. He was a member of Ridgeley Church of Christ.
He married Margie Stephenson on Aug. 15, 1942, at Cassville. She survives.
Additional survivors include a son, Bob Bradford, Wheaton; four daughters, Linda Beavers, Joplin, Pat Savage, Ridgeley, and Janie Bateman and Barbara Wilber, both of Rogers, Ark.; four brothers, E.W. Bradford, Jr., Seligman, Corky Bradford, Lake Charles, La., Jim Bradford, Pikeville, N.C., and Kenneth Bradford, Queen City, Texas; a sister, Marjorie Bagwell, Cassville; 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Wheaton Funeral Home. Malcom Scott will officiate. Burial will be in Rocky Comfort (MO) Cemetery.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Joplin Globe
Dec. 1995
Mr. Bradford was born July 20, 1924, at Seligman. He was a lifetime area resident, living in Ridgeley for 42 years. He and his wife owned the Ridgeley Grocery Store for 10 years. He was a member of Ridgeley Church of Christ.
He married Margie Stephenson on Aug. 15, 1942, at Cassville. She survives.
Additional survivors include a son, Bob Bradford, Wheaton; four daughters, Linda Beavers, Joplin, Pat Savage, Ridgeley, and Janie Bateman and Barbara Wilber, both of Rogers, Ark.; four brothers, E.W. Bradford, Jr., Seligman, Corky Bradford, Lake Charles, La., Jim Bradford, Pikeville, N.C., and Kenneth Bradford, Queen City, Texas; a sister, Marjorie Bagwell, Cassville; 16 grandchildren and 27 great-grandchildren.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Wheaton Funeral Home. Malcom Scott will officiate. Burial will be in Rocky Comfort (MO) Cemetery.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
Joplin Globe
Dec. 1995
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