  Brad Hays Ward 19 October 1922 - 18 March 2017  Betty Ann Moran Ward 31 August 1927 - 18 March 2008  Funeral services for Brad Ward, 94, were held Saturday, March 25, 2017 at Meador Funeral Home, Whitesboro with interment following at Mt. Tabor Cemetery, Sandusky, Texas. Bob Keck and Gene Deckard officiated. Brad Hays Ward was the second child and eldest son of Hays Benjamin Ward and Nora Elliot, born October 19, 1922 near Chickasaw, Oklahoma. He died at Texoma Medical Center in Denison on Saturday, March 18, 2017, eight years to the day after the passing of his wife of 60 years, Betty Ann Moran, a Gordonville native. His parents and five of his eight siblings also preceded him in death. He is survived by his son, Richard Brad Ward of Sacramento, California; brother, Jimmy Ray Ward and sisters Bobbie June Ward Stone and Nelda Faye Ward Keck; his unofficially adopted children and grandchildren: Derek Fletcher, Leslie Fletcher Jonathan Fletcher, Kenneth Landis, Kelsey Landis, Jarod Fletcher, Gerren Fletcher, Meg Fletcher, Dalton Wheat and Daxton Landis, who cared for him during his final years. They and Jake Anderson served as pallbearers. When Brad was 5 years old, his family relocated to acreage near Fox, Oklahoma where Brad completed his education, graduation from Fox High School in 1940. He enlisted in the U.S. Army June 1941 and served in an air defense unit of the Army Air Corps on various Pacific Islands until the end of World War II. After his honorable discharge, he enrolled in Oklahoma Southeastern State College at Durant where he met fellow student Betty Moran. They were married in the parlor of of her rooming house May 30, 1947. After completing his B.A. in Education at Southeastern in 1948, Brad attended Oklahoma A&M College at Stillwater, earning a M.A. in School Administration in 1978. Brad left Bartlesville to become a vocational instructor at Edmond, Oklahoma. He was an active member of the Church of Christ. For over 20 years he acted as Head Boys Counselor for the church-associated Sooner Youth Camp at Lake Murray, Oklahoma. He was a founding member and original elder of the Church of Christ at Ramona, Oklahoma. Brad moved to Gordonville in 1981, serving as Justice of the Peace for the Gordonville area, 1992 - 1999. Mt.Tabor Cemetery Susan Hawkins © 2024 If you find any of Grayson CountyTXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |