Amy Brazell

Amy Charlene Walker Brazell, age 84, passed away on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 in Harvey County, Kansas. Amy Charlene Walker Brazell was born March 25, 1927 in the Stockman Community of Shelby County, Texas, to Vesse Eugene and Amy G. Williams Walker. Before her first birthday, the family moved to the Centerview Community in the next-door county of Sabine. When her school days began, she attended the rural Centerview school, where eight grades were taught in only two school rooms. In the fourth grade, she transferred to school in the town of Bronson and finished high school there in 1944. She was valedictorian of her graduating class. For two years, she attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches, Texas. The following two years she attended the University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and graduated with a Bachelor of Journalism degree in 1948. Charlene went to San Angelo, Texas, to work on the San Angelo Standard Times, the flagship paper of the Harte-Hanks chain of newspapers. Later, she went to Midland, Texas, and worked for the Texas Company (Texaco). On December 16, 1950, she was married to Douglass Lee Brazell who was employed with Phillips Petroleum Company. She, too, was employed with Phillips for a few years. The couple lived first in Odessa, Texas, and then Borger, Texas. In 1955, they moved to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, for the first time. In 1959, they returned to Borger for two years and then came to Bartlesville for the second time. They remained in Bartlesville until January of 1970 when Mr. Brazell took an assignment to Italy. They lived abroad for almost the entire decade of the 1970s, first for 2-1//2 years in Parma, Italy, and then for 7-1/2 years in the Teesside area of Northern England. In late 1979, they returned once more to Bartlesville. They continued to live in Bartlesville up to and then following Mr. Brazell's retirement. Charlene was predeceased by her husband, her parents; and two brothers, James Maurice Walker and Samuel Irvin Walker. She is survived by son, Gregory Alan Brazell and his wife, Cynthia, and grandsons, Samuel Lee, Joseph Glen and Daniel Alan, and also by her son, Kyle Lee Brazell. During her lifetime, she was active in family-related activities. She served as Cub Scout Den Mother and several times was Room Mother at school. Her interests were chiefly in reading and study, and she worked for many years on researching her own and her husband's family history. The organizations she belonged to reflected her interest in history and family history. She was a member of the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, United Daughters of the Confederacy, Daughters of the Republic of Texas and the Bartlesville Genealogical Society. To keep up with her interest, she also belonged to the Historical Society of the county in which she was born, as well as several other counties in which ancestory had lived.