The Norman Transcript
July 25, 1992
Emma Leah Copass Brakebill, former Norman resident and retired
elementary school teacher, died at Bartlesville on Thursday, July 23.
She was 80.
Graveside services for the Bartlesville resident are scheduled for 11
a.m. Moday in Fairview Cemetery at Shawee, with the Rev.
Michael McEwen officiating. Services are under the direction of
Arnold Moore Funeral Service at Bartlesville.
A native of Jackson County, she was born at Altus on April 25,
1912, to James Hiram and Alice Reynolds Aycock Copass. A
childhood resident of the Norman and Shawnee areas, she graduated
from Shawnee High School in 1930. She earned her teaching certificate
at the University of Oklahoma, where she majored in art education.
After continuing her education at Chicago Art Institute, she returned
to Oklahoma and taught elementary education at Wilson Elementary
School in Shawnee. She later retired from the Norman Public School
System in 1975.
She married Willis William "Bill" in 1942. After his 1965 retirement
from Tinker Air Force Base, where he worked as an accountant,
the couple continued to make their home in Norman until 1990,
when they moved to Bartlesville to be bear their daughter, Barbara.
Mrs, Brakebill was a menber of McFarlin Memorial United Methodist
Church, Alpha Phi, the Oklahoma nd National Education Associations
and Oklahoma Oriental Brushwork Association.
In addition to her husband, Bill, Mrs. Brakebill is survived by her
daughter, Barbara Martin of Bartlesville; her son, William Stephen
of Salem, Ore.; five grandchildren, Gregory Wayne and Christopher
Wade Hamilton, Carl Staats Martin and Rachael and Leah Teresa
Brakebill; and one great-granddaughter.
She was preceded in death by her parent, James and Alice, and
by one brother, Jack.
Friends may call at Arnold Moore Funeral Service in Bartlesville
until Monday morning before the service.
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