Ava Brownlee Van Bramer

LONGVIEW — Funeral services for Ava Brownlee Van Bramer, 85, of Longview will be held at 10 a.m. today, Sept. 1, 2004, at Macedonia Baptist Church in Longview with the Rev. Steve Cochran officiating.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3, 2004, at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa. Arrangements are under the direction of Rader Funeral Home of Longview.
Mrs. Van Bramer died Monday, Aug. 30, 2004, in a Longview hospital. She was born Jan. 5, 1919, in Nimrod and had been a resident of Longview for the past 3 1/2 years, moving from Odessa. She was a longtime resident of Odessa, where she was a member of the Second Baptist Church and later was an active member of the First Baptist Church.
Mrs. Van Bramer enjoyed hand work, sewing and cooking. After moving to Longview, she joined the First Baptist Church and was an Ambassador of Buckner Westminster Place, where she was proud to be a resident.
Mrs. Van Bramer was preceded in death by her first husband C.F. Brownlee in 1979, and her husband Roger Van Bramer in 2000.
Those left to cherish her memory are her sons and daughters-in-law, Max and Cindi Brownlee of Boulder, Colo., and Don and Pat Brownlee of Hallsville; grandchildren, Aimee, Beau, Blake, Bradley and Blaire Brownlee; brother and sisters-in-law, W.H. Munn and his wife Troy, and Ruth Munn, all of Odessa; stepson, David Van Bramer and his wife Kay of Pow; stepdaughters, Comilla Thompson of Houston and Jo Rita Olliff of Odessa; grandson, Tim Brownlee of Boulder, Colo.; and numerous nieces and nephews.