Services for Virgil L. Brackett, 77, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Westmoreland Baptist Church with the Rev. David Diggs, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park under direction of Resthaven Funeral Home.
Brackett died Monday, Feb. 23, 1998, in Horizon Specialty Hospital.
He was born Dec. 6, 1920, in Wolf Bayou, Ark. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He married Mary Huffman on March 14, 1945, in Greenville. He was a member of Yellowhouse Masonic Lodge 841, AF&AM, and he was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was a member of Westmoreland Baptist Church, and he was a charter member of the Lubbock Scottish Rite Temple.
He worked for TNM&O as a bus driver for 39 years, retiring in 1987.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Gary of Tacoma, Wash., Larry and David, both of Lubbock and Tim of Austin; two sisters, Dellar Jenkins and Goldie Sprouse, both of Concord, Ark.; two brothers, Clyde of Marion, Ind., and Raymond of Branson, Mo.; and six grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association or Westmoreland Baptist Church.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
Services for Virgil L. Brackett, 77, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Westmoreland Baptist Church with the Rev. David Diggs, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial Park under direction of Resthaven Funeral Home.
Brackett died Monday, Feb. 23, 1998, in Horizon Specialty Hospital.
He was born Dec. 6, 1920, in Wolf Bayou, Ark. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II. He married Mary Huffman on March 14, 1945, in Greenville. He was a member of Yellowhouse Masonic Lodge 841, AF&AM, and he was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was a member of Westmoreland Baptist Church, and he was a charter member of the Lubbock Scottish Rite Temple.
He worked for TNM&O as a bus driver for 39 years, retiring in 1987.
Survivors include his wife; four sons, Gary of Tacoma, Wash., Larry and David, both of Lubbock and Tim of Austin; two sisters, Dellar Jenkins and Goldie Sprouse, both of Concord, Ark.; two brothers, Clyde of Marion, Ind., and Raymond of Branson, Mo.; and six grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the American Lung Association, the American Heart Association or Westmoreland Baptist Church.
The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today.
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