T. Joe Braswell
September 17th, 1919 - February 1st, 2009
From: Georgetown, TX - formerly of Alton, MO
Visitation: 6:00-8:00pm Friday
February 6, 2009
Clary Funeral Home
Alton, MO
Funeral: 2:00pm Saturday
February 7, 2009
1st Baptist Church
Alton, MO
Burial: Huddleston Cemetery
Alton, MO
Thomas Joe Braswell loved life and all it had to offer! He was a poet, a great storyteller, and he loved to share his philosophy, his "bits of wisdom" and his Christian faith. He was married 56 years to the love of his life, Vernice Aileen (Green), who died in 2006. He will be greatly missed.
Grandpa Joe, as he liked to be called, was proud of his "first book" titled The Ringing of the Bell, an autobiography with lots of his philosophy included. During the last years of his life, after he lost his sight, he made many tapes as a way to share his thoughts, poems, "wake up dreams" and ideas.
He grew up in the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, professed his Christian faith and was baptized at the age of twelve. He served as Sunday School teacher in the Alton and Pacific, Missouri Baptist churches, and helped coordinate the Children's Church in Pacific. After he and Vernice moved to Texas to live with his daughter and son-in-law, he was a faithful member at First Baptist Church in Georgetown until his health prevented him from attending.
Joe lived an eventful life. He was born with the Spanish flu, spent five years in a tuberculosis sanitarium as a teenager and young adult, when cured worked as a civilian police guard in defense plants, and then helped build the atomic bomb working for one of the Manhattan Project's corporate partners. After a time of working in shoe factories in Arkansas and West Plains, Missouri, he became a farmer, living on land inherited by his father from his grandmother and her parents. At the age of 40, Joe went back to school, obtained a B.A. degree from Drury University, and then a Masters and Advanced Masters in Education from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He taught, coached, and served as principal for Missouri schools until his retirement after a heart attack in the early 1970s. Following retirement, he taught poetry writing classes, worked as a volunteer tutor in the federal prison at Pacific, Missouri, sang with a senior group called the "Silver Tones" and enjoyed traveling and visiting with his grandsons in Oregon.
Joe is survived by his two daughters and their husbands, Verna and Harvey Browning (Georgetown, Texas), Rebekah "Becky" and David Tripp (West Linn, Oregon), his two grandsons Sean Charles Tripp and Aaron Thomas Tripp (both of Oregon), sisters-in-law Patsy Braswell (Alton, MO), Sarah Braswell Masters (Omaha, NE and formerly of Alton, MO), June Green (Nixa, MO), Wanda Green Brake (Oklahoma), Carolyn Green (Illinois), one brother-in-law Walter Charlie Green and his wife Glenna (Salem, Arkansas), and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife Vernice, his parents Herbert and Emma Braswell, and all his siblings: Edward Eckert, Bonna Hunt, Hugh Braswell, Helen Fraley, Robert Braswell, Nancy Evans, and Anna Ruth Braswell.
We look forward to joining Joe in a family reunion in Heaven, where he now has clear sight, is free of pain and suffering, and is with his beloved wife and family.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, with burial in the family Huddleston Cemetery under the direction of the Clary Funeral Home of Alton. Family visitation will be Friday evening February 6th from 6:00 until 8:00 PM, at the Clary Funeral Home.
September 17th, 1919 - February 1st, 2009
From: Georgetown, TX - formerly of Alton, MO
Visitation: 6:00-8:00pm Friday
February 6, 2009
Clary Funeral Home
Alton, MO
Funeral: 2:00pm Saturday
February 7, 2009
1st Baptist Church
Alton, MO
Burial: Huddleston Cemetery
Alton, MO
Thomas Joe Braswell loved life and all it had to offer! He was a poet, a great storyteller, and he loved to share his philosophy, his "bits of wisdom" and his Christian faith. He was married 56 years to the love of his life, Vernice Aileen (Green), who died in 2006. He will be greatly missed.
Grandpa Joe, as he liked to be called, was proud of his "first book" titled The Ringing of the Bell, an autobiography with lots of his philosophy included. During the last years of his life, after he lost his sight, he made many tapes as a way to share his thoughts, poems, "wake up dreams" and ideas.
He grew up in the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, professed his Christian faith and was baptized at the age of twelve. He served as Sunday School teacher in the Alton and Pacific, Missouri Baptist churches, and helped coordinate the Children's Church in Pacific. After he and Vernice moved to Texas to live with his daughter and son-in-law, he was a faithful member at First Baptist Church in Georgetown until his health prevented him from attending.
Joe lived an eventful life. He was born with the Spanish flu, spent five years in a tuberculosis sanitarium as a teenager and young adult, when cured worked as a civilian police guard in defense plants, and then helped build the atomic bomb working for one of the Manhattan Project's corporate partners. After a time of working in shoe factories in Arkansas and West Plains, Missouri, he became a farmer, living on land inherited by his father from his grandmother and her parents. At the age of 40, Joe went back to school, obtained a B.A. degree from Drury University, and then a Masters and Advanced Masters in Education from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He taught, coached, and served as principal for Missouri schools until his retirement after a heart attack in the early 1970s. Following retirement, he taught poetry writing classes, worked as a volunteer tutor in the federal prison at Pacific, Missouri, sang with a senior group called the "Silver Tones" and enjoyed traveling and visiting with his grandsons in Oregon.
Joe is survived by his two daughters and their husbands, Verna and Harvey Browning (Georgetown, Texas), Rebekah "Becky" and David Tripp (West Linn, Oregon), his two grandsons Sean Charles Tripp and Aaron Thomas Tripp (both of Oregon), sisters-in-law Patsy Braswell (Alton, MO), Sarah Braswell Masters (Omaha, NE and formerly of Alton, MO), June Green (Nixa, MO), Wanda Green Brake (Oklahoma), Carolyn Green (Illinois), one brother-in-law Walter Charlie Green and his wife Glenna (Salem, Arkansas), and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife Vernice, his parents Herbert and Emma Braswell, and all his siblings: Edward Eckert, Bonna Hunt, Hugh Braswell, Helen Fraley, Robert Braswell, Nancy Evans, and Anna Ruth Braswell.
We look forward to joining Joe in a family reunion in Heaven, where he now has clear sight, is free of pain and suffering, and is with his beloved wife and family.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, with burial in the family Huddleston Cemetery under the direction of the Clary Funeral Home of Alton. Family visitation will be Friday evening February 6th from 6:00 until 8:00 PM, at the Clary Funeral Home.
T. Joe Braswell
September 17th, 1919 - February 1st, 2009
From: Georgetown, TX - formerly of Alton, MO
Visitation: 6:00-8:00pm Friday
February 6, 2009
Clary Funeral Home
Alton, MO
Funeral: 2:00pm Saturday
February 7, 2009
1st Baptist Church
Alton, MO
Burial: Huddleston Cemetery
Alton, MO
Thomas Joe Braswell loved life and all it had to offer! He was a poet, a great storyteller, and he loved to share his philosophy, his "bits of wisdom" and his Christian faith. He was married 56 years to the love of his life, Vernice Aileen (Green), who died in 2006. He will be greatly missed.
Grandpa Joe, as he liked to be called, was proud of his "first book" titled The Ringing of the Bell, an autobiography with lots of his philosophy included. During the last years of his life, after he lost his sight, he made many tapes as a way to share his thoughts, poems, "wake up dreams" and ideas.
He grew up in the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, professed his Christian faith and was baptized at the age of twelve. He served as Sunday School teacher in the Alton and Pacific, Missouri Baptist churches, and helped coordinate the Children's Church in Pacific. After he and Vernice moved to Texas to live with his daughter and son-in-law, he was a faithful member at First Baptist Church in Georgetown until his health prevented him from attending.
Joe lived an eventful life. He was born with the Spanish flu, spent five years in a tuberculosis sanitarium as a teenager and young adult, when cured worked as a civilian police guard in defense plants, and then helped build the atomic bomb working for one of the Manhattan Project's corporate partners. After a time of working in shoe factories in Arkansas and West Plains, Missouri, he became a farmer, living on land inherited by his father from his grandmother and her parents. At the age of 40, Joe went back to school, obtained a B.A. degree from Drury University, and then a Masters and Advanced Masters in Education from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He taught, coached, and served as principal for Missouri schools until his retirement after a heart attack in the early 1970s. Following retirement, he taught poetry writing classes, worked as a volunteer tutor in the federal prison at Pacific, Missouri, sang with a senior group called the "Silver Tones" and enjoyed traveling and visiting with his grandsons in Oregon.
Joe is survived by his two daughters and their husbands, Verna and Harvey Browning (Georgetown, Texas), Rebekah "Becky" and David Tripp (West Linn, Oregon), his two grandsons Sean Charles Tripp and Aaron Thomas Tripp (both of Oregon), sisters-in-law Patsy Braswell (Alton, MO), Sarah Braswell Masters (Omaha, NE and formerly of Alton, MO), June Green (Nixa, MO), Wanda Green Brake (Oklahoma), Carolyn Green (Illinois), one brother-in-law Walter Charlie Green and his wife Glenna (Salem, Arkansas), and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife Vernice, his parents Herbert and Emma Braswell, and all his siblings: Edward Eckert, Bonna Hunt, Hugh Braswell, Helen Fraley, Robert Braswell, Nancy Evans, and Anna Ruth Braswell.
We look forward to joining Joe in a family reunion in Heaven, where he now has clear sight, is free of pain and suffering, and is with his beloved wife and family.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, with burial in the family Huddleston Cemetery under the direction of the Clary Funeral Home of Alton. Family visitation will be Friday evening February 6th from 6:00 until 8:00 PM, at the Clary Funeral Home.
September 17th, 1919 - February 1st, 2009
From: Georgetown, TX - formerly of Alton, MO
Visitation: 6:00-8:00pm Friday
February 6, 2009
Clary Funeral Home
Alton, MO
Funeral: 2:00pm Saturday
February 7, 2009
1st Baptist Church
Alton, MO
Burial: Huddleston Cemetery
Alton, MO
Thomas Joe Braswell loved life and all it had to offer! He was a poet, a great storyteller, and he loved to share his philosophy, his "bits of wisdom" and his Christian faith. He was married 56 years to the love of his life, Vernice Aileen (Green), who died in 2006. He will be greatly missed.
Grandpa Joe, as he liked to be called, was proud of his "first book" titled The Ringing of the Bell, an autobiography with lots of his philosophy included. During the last years of his life, after he lost his sight, he made many tapes as a way to share his thoughts, poems, "wake up dreams" and ideas.
He grew up in the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, professed his Christian faith and was baptized at the age of twelve. He served as Sunday School teacher in the Alton and Pacific, Missouri Baptist churches, and helped coordinate the Children's Church in Pacific. After he and Vernice moved to Texas to live with his daughter and son-in-law, he was a faithful member at First Baptist Church in Georgetown until his health prevented him from attending.
Joe lived an eventful life. He was born with the Spanish flu, spent five years in a tuberculosis sanitarium as a teenager and young adult, when cured worked as a civilian police guard in defense plants, and then helped build the atomic bomb working for one of the Manhattan Project's corporate partners. After a time of working in shoe factories in Arkansas and West Plains, Missouri, he became a farmer, living on land inherited by his father from his grandmother and her parents. At the age of 40, Joe went back to school, obtained a B.A. degree from Drury University, and then a Masters and Advanced Masters in Education from the University of Mississippi at Oxford. He taught, coached, and served as principal for Missouri schools until his retirement after a heart attack in the early 1970s. Following retirement, he taught poetry writing classes, worked as a volunteer tutor in the federal prison at Pacific, Missouri, sang with a senior group called the "Silver Tones" and enjoyed traveling and visiting with his grandsons in Oregon.
Joe is survived by his two daughters and their husbands, Verna and Harvey Browning (Georgetown, Texas), Rebekah "Becky" and David Tripp (West Linn, Oregon), his two grandsons Sean Charles Tripp and Aaron Thomas Tripp (both of Oregon), sisters-in-law Patsy Braswell (Alton, MO), Sarah Braswell Masters (Omaha, NE and formerly of Alton, MO), June Green (Nixa, MO), Wanda Green Brake (Oklahoma), Carolyn Green (Illinois), one brother-in-law Walter Charlie Green and his wife Glenna (Salem, Arkansas), and a host of nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. He was preceded in death by his wife Vernice, his parents Herbert and Emma Braswell, and all his siblings: Edward Eckert, Bonna Hunt, Hugh Braswell, Helen Fraley, Robert Braswell, Nancy Evans, and Anna Ruth Braswell.
We look forward to joining Joe in a family reunion in Heaven, where he now has clear sight, is free of pain and suffering, and is with his beloved wife and family.
Funeral services will be 2:00pm Saturday, February 7, 2009, at the Alton, Missouri First Baptist Church, with burial in the family Huddleston Cemetery under the direction of the Clary Funeral Home of Alton. Family visitation will be Friday evening February 6th from 6:00 until 8:00 PM, at the Clary Funeral Home.
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