Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Dr. Robert Galveston Bratcher, 90, died peacefully on July 11, 2010, at home at the Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill. He was born to Baptist missionaries Lewis Malen Bratcher and Artie Porter Bratcher in Campos, Brazil, on April 17, 1920. Bob grew up in Rio de Janeiro, and then...
Read MoreI have fond memories of Dr. Bratcher and his loving family as members of the First Baptist Church of Port Jefferson in the early 19690's. I was privileged to work with Dr. Bratcher in typing some of manuscripts for "Good News For Modern Man" - a truly wonderful experience.
Natalie Aurucci Stiefel
E-mail: [email protected]
January 31, 2013
I've never met Dr. Bratcher, but his work has influenced me and made me who i am. Thanks so much for your work with the Good news bible. It's been my favorite translation and i've used it for over a decade now.
Neil Fernandes
June 08, 2012 | Toronto, ON
June, Meredith, Priscilla, and Stephen;
Our prayers for your lose of a father and husband and one of the Bratcher family leaders. His knowledge of the bible and his talent for sharing it with the world will always be present for the rest of the Bratcher family in his many written volumes. He blessed us all with his talents.
The Donald Bratcher family
Jodie, Doug, Dona, Laura and our extended familes
July 24, 2010
We received word of Dr. Bratcher's Home-going from Dr. Norm Mundhenk, longtime Translations Consultant with the United Bible Society serving all the translators who used the Good News New Testament and the Good News Bible as a reference in Scripture translation in Papua, Indonesia where there are more than 200 different languages. Our own personal devotional reading of the Bible is in the Good News Bible. We feel it is the best dynamic equivalent translation available. We ourselves and the...
John and Helen Ellenberger
July 20, 2010 | Nyack, NY
Dear Bratcher family, My sympathy and prayers reach out to all of you. I remember Dr. Bratcher as one of my favorite teachers at Southern Seminary. As a new student in the spring of 1955, he called on me to translate from the assigned Greek text. As did all his students, I stood to recite (a new experience for me). After completing my translation, he commented to the male students, i.e., everyone else in the room, "Now let's see if she knows what she is talking about" and proceeded to...
Ruth (Bradfute) Heizer
July 20, 2010 | Knoxville, TN
June, Priscilla, Rosalind, and Family, I am so sorry for your loss of husband, father, and grandfather. Know that my thoughts and prayers go out to you. I will remember him fondly when I hold my Bible, when I see Greek letters, when I think of Brazil, when I pray the Lord's Prayer, when I walk through the gardens around church, and when I think of you. May your tender hearts fill with the joy of the "good news" that he shared with us all.
Julia Hicks
July 18, 2010 | Carrboro, NC
Dr.Bratcher will be greatly missed by our family. Um grande homem de Deus. We love you, dear family!
You are in our thoughts and prayers. SAUDADES!
Pastor Werner Kaschel e Dirce Kaschel(Brazil), Clinton and Eula Kaschel Parnell(Dallas, Texas).
July 17, 2010
Meredith,
Please accept our sincere sympathy.
The Whitfield family
July 17, 2010 | Raleigh, NC
What a loss to the Bratcher family and all of us who loved Bob. He will be missed by all of us.I pray that all of the happy memories of Bob will bring some comfort during this difficult time.Know that you are in our prayers.
Howard and Lillian Lee
July 16, 2010 | Chapel Hill, NC