Obituary - Barbara B (Spires) Brafford

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Barbara B. (Spires) Brafford, 80, 220 E. Vine Street, Mitchell, died at 2:15 a.m. Sunday, May 6, 2007, at Paoli Health & Living Center in Paoli.

 She was born Nov. 15, 1926, in Lawrence County, the daughter of Granville "Grant" and Maude (Flynn) Spires. She married Delmar Brafford, and he preceded her in death on Sept. 4, 2003.

She was a hairdresser and owned a beauty shop in Columbus, and also worked at the Tiger's Lair Beauty Shop in Oolitic. She was a member of the Oolitic V.F.W. Ladies Auxiliary.

Survivors include three daughters, Wanda Le Clear and husband Roland of Mitchell, Dana Sutherland of Mechanicsburg, Penn., and Sandra Sutherland of Mitchell; seven grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband; one daughter, Barbara Schapker; five brothers; one sister; and two grandchildren.

Funeral services will be at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Cresthaven Funeral Home in Bedford. Burial will follow in Cresthaven Memory Gardens.