Obituary

Buddy Bryan
Palestine Herald Press - Monday July 1, 2002

Services for Buddy Bryan, 73, of Tennessee Colony, will be at 2 P.M.
Tuesday at Tennesee Colony Union Church with the Rev. Ken Dotson
officiating. Burial will follow in the Tennessee Colony Cemetery under the
direction of Bailey & Foster. Mr. Bryan died Sunday at Palestine Regonal
Medicl Center. He was born May 30, 1929, in Palestine to Reese and Maudie
McKinzie Bryan. Mr. Bryan was a farmer and rancher in Centerville for 30
years and worked as the production superintendent for Mossbacher Oil near
Madisonville for 15 years. He was a veteran of the U.S. Army during the
Korean War, 1949-1951. He was a 32nd Degree Mason. He was preceded in death
by one son, Billy Tim Bryan, in 1953. Mr. Bryan is survived by his wife of
50 years, Shirley A. Bryan of Tennessee Colony; son, Bruce Bryan of
Georgetown; sister, Joan Link of Tennessee Colony; brother, James V. Bryan
of Cedar Hill; two grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. Pallbearers
will be Mike Link, Darwin Link, Oscar Warren, Sam Wayne Leathers, Johnie
Gunn, J.M. Boyd and Wayne McInnis. Honorary pallbearers will be Clayton
Roane, Haskell Mitchell and James F. Ray. Condolence calls will be received
from 6 to 8 P.M. today at the funeral home.