Bratcher.Donald.P.1997.Union.OBIT

Obits from the Sturgis News, permission granted to post obituaries by
Paul Monsour, Managing Editor.
112th Year   Sturgis, Union County, Kentucky, Wednesday April 9, 1997
Number 15

REV. DONALD P. BRATCHER
	Rev. Donald P. Bratcher, 73, Owensboro, Morganfield native, died 
Wednesday April 2 at Owensboro Mercy Health Systems.
	A Baptist minister, he was pastor of Lamplite Mission of Yellow Creek
Baptist Church. He also was the former pastor of Buttons Berry Baptist 
Church in Island, KY., Pleasant Memorial Baptist Church in Owensboro and 
Mount Vernon Baptist Church in Calhoun. He was also a jail chaplin at 
the Daviess County Detention and a U.S. Marine Corps World War II 
veteran, serving in the 2nd Division.
	Survivors include his wife of 50 years, Jodie Maloy Bratcher; two 
daughters, Dona McCurry of Elizabethtown and Laura Goins of Worthington,
PA.; one son, Doug Bratcher of LIberty, MO.; three brothers, David 
Bratcher of Henderson, Harold Bratcher of Manaus, Brazil, and Charles 
Bratcher of Frankfort; and nine grandchildren.
	Services were at 3:30pm Saturday at Yellow Creek Baptist Church in 
Thurston, KY. Burial was in the church cemetery.
	Expressions of sympathy may take the form of contributions to 
Lamplite Mission, c/o Yellow Creek Baptist Church, 1555 Kentucky 144, 
Owensboro, Ky 42303.

Obituary contributed by: Maria & Tim Troutman <troutman@snoopy.bunt.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Apr 1997