Brasher, Charles Albert

Obituary -- Picher Okla., Sep 23.--Charles Albert Bert' Brasher, 38, died at the Picher Oklahoma hospital at 6 this morning following an injury in an accident at the Silver Fox Mine, three miles northwest of Picher, at 3:45 Friday afternoon. The Mitchelson undertaking company had charge of the body. Funeral arrangements are not complete. The service will probably be held from his home at Commerce, Monday, and burial will be in Fairview cemetery between Chetopa and Melrose Kansas. Brasher was tub hooker at the Silver Fox Mine. A boulder fell from an ascending can and struck him on the head, inflicting a skull fracture. He never regained consciousness at the hospital where he was taken in Todd's ambulance of Picher. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Montie Brasher, of Commerce; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Brasher, who reside on a farm near Commerce; and one brother, John Brasher, who is expected to arrive from Hamilton Kansas, tonight. Note: Mitchelson Funeral home at Commerce Oklahoma, stated that insurance was with Sherman-Ellis Insurance, Joplin Missouri

Obituary -- Mrs. Vernie Brasher, administratrix of the estate of her husband, the late C. A. Brasher, received a money judgment totaling $3,451 from the Vinegar Hill Zinc Company in a district court opinion handed down late Friday by Judge Ad V. Coppedge. C. E. Brasher died at Joplin Missouri in August following an accident at the defendant company's mine. The plaintiff alleged that her late husband's neck was broke in the fall of a boulder from the roof of a mine she stated was poorly trimmed. The administratrix, under terms of the settlement, will distribute the money, according to law. Mrs. Brasher has four children.