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Donald Ray "Don" Brackett

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Birth Date: November 17, 1935
Death Date: December 25, 2016
Age at Death: 81
Sex: male
Veteran Of: Marine Corps

Marriages

Shirley LaVonne

Burial Details

Cemetery Name: Veterans Memorial Cemetery of Western Colorado
Mortuary Name: Callahan-Edfast Mortuary

Obituaries

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 5A Death Notice - December 29, 2016

Donald Ray Brackett, 81, Grand Junction, died Dec. 25, 2016,
at Mesa Manor.
Services will be held at 11 a.m. Tuesday at the Callahan-Edfast
Mortuary Chapel.
He worked for the Colorado Department of Transportation.
He is survived by his wife Shirley LaVonne; two sons, Scott
Ray of Berthoud and Todd Brent of De Beque; three daughters,
LaVonne McLaughlin of Palisade, Shawn Bogard of Kalamazoo,
Michigan, and Radona Brackett of Grand Junction; a brother Elvern
John (Bud) of Elk Grove, California; 11 grandchildren; and 21
great-grandchildren.
Memorial contributions to HopeWest and Hospice Care Center,
3090B N. 12th St., Grand Junction, 81506; or to Parkinson’s research
or the Multiple Sclerosis Society.

Grand Junction Daily Sentinel page 7B Obituary - December 31, 2016

Donald Ray Brackett
November 17, 1935 - December 25, 2016
Donald Ray Brackett, 81,
left this life on Christmas Day
at Mesa Manor, where he had
been lovingly cared for since
February 2016.
Don was born November 17,
1935 to Myrtle (Stokes) and
John Theodore Brackett in
Boulder, CO. He is survived
by his wife, Shirley; five
children, LaVonne
McLaughlin, Shawn Bogard (Dave), Scott (Kathy) and Todd
(Tracy); 11 grandchildren, Brook, Raynee, Miruka, Steven,
Denise, Danielle, Kortney, Dustin, Devyn, Cash and Chanse; 21
great-grandchildren; and his brother, Elvern (Bud) and wife,
Joan, from Elk Grove, CA.
He is preceded in death by his father, mother and step-mother.
Don joined the Marine Corps on his 18th birthday in 1953,
after graduating from high school in Grand Valley in May. After
finishing basic training, he shipped out to Korea. After three
years of duty, he was discharged as a sergeant.
Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday, January 2 at Callahan-
Edfast Mortuary, burial will follow at 1 p.m. at Veterans
Memorial Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to Hospice, MS Society,
or Parkinson’s Research.

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