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Fred Brasher Obituary

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at McRae Funeral Home for Fred A. Brasher, 76, Boaz, who died Friday, March 27, 2009, at Huntsville Hospital. Bro. Doyce Putman will officiate. Interment will be in Hillcrest Cemetery. McRae Funeral Home, Boaz, in charge of arrangements.

Mr. Brasher was born in Alabama on May 28, 1932, to E.L. and Maggie Gregory Brasher. He was a retired motor inspector with the steel plant in Gadsden. Mr. Brasher was preceded in death by his daughter, Anna Catherine Brasher.

Mr. Brasher is survived by his son and daughter-in-law, Freddie Brasher Jr. and Crystal, Boaz; daughters and sons-in-law, Sharon and Morton Hodgens, Boaz, and Libby and Danny Carroll, Tusca-loosa; chosen daughter, Linda Muse, Boaz; 10 grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; sisters and brother-in-law, Catherine Brasher, Boaz, and Dot and Franklin Kellett, Whiton; and sisters-in-law, Dot Brasher, Boaz, and Peggy Smith, South Carolina.

Pallbearers will be Bryan Clough, Chris Carroll, Trey Hodgens, Joey Carroll, Sam Herring and Mike Bradberry. Honorary pallbearers will be Gary Bradberry, Stanley Brasher, David Brasher, Morgan Kellett and Ed Kellet.

To plant trees in memory, please visit the Sympathy Store.

Published by The Gadsden Times on Mar. 29, 2009.

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