Mrs. Bracewell Dies at Home of Daughter*

Danville Commercial News Feb. 28, 1947
*Mrs. Bracewell Dies at Home of Daughter
Mrs. Jessie L. Bracewell,80, widow of Edwin Bracewell, died at 4:10 a.m. Friday at the home of a daughter, Mrs. Russell M. Johnson, 103 S. Jefferson St.
Mrs. Bracewell was a member of the First Congregational Church and the Ladies Social Union of that church. She was born Aug. 14, 1866, in Catlin, a daughter of Joseph and Melvina Blakney Anderson.
Surviving with the daughter are three sons, Albert, Roy and Dwight Bracewell, all of Danville; seven grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, two great-great-grandchildren and one sister, Mrs. E. Golding, Belleville, Ill. She was preceded in death by her husband and five sisters.
The body was removed to the Berhalter Funeral Home, to be returned to the daughter's home Saturday morning. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in First Congregational Church with the Rev. R. E. Emmert officiating. Burial will be in Greenwood Cemetery.