Ruby C. Bracken, 96, Topeka, died Jan. 22, 2012, in Hampton, N.H.
She was born in Valley Falls April 8, 1915, the middle daughter of Frank and Lena Krumrey Wunder.
Ruby C. Bracken
She attended the Rock Creek School District and Kansas State University. She was Kansas State Rifle champion and involved in photography.
She worked as the national park photographer for Yellowstone National Park for a number of years and later worked as a photographer and a waitress for the famous Christian’s Hut Restaurant in Long Beach, Calif. She was also employed as an airbrush artist at El Segundo Air Force Base, in California, during World War II.
She traveled abroad until the age of 88 and had resided in Spain for over 20 years. As an accomplished photographer and artist she was always involved in different art mediums. She worked in leather, wood, Japanese Sumi-E painting, and stained and fused glass.
She was a member of the Topeka Bible Church and volunteered for many years at St. Francis Hospital in Topeka.
She married Omer Victor Bracken, who worked for TWA for many years, and they traveled extensively around the world. While living in Saudi Arabia, the Brackens adopted their only son Moishe (Mike Bracken) Levi Ragieme in Beirut, Lebanon.
She had two sisters, Norma Regier and Velda Allison, who preceded her in death.
Services will be held in the Valley Falls Cemetery in late summer. A tribute has been set up with the Alzheimer’s Foundation at this address: http://act.alz.org/goto/Ruby.Bracken.
Donations can be made to the Alzheimer’s Foundation or to a charity of one’s choice. Arrangements are by the Remick & Gendron Funeral Home-Crematory, Hampton.
from JeffCountynews.com http://www.jeffcountynews.com/2012/02/ruby-bracken/
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