This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/XY.2ADE/768 Message Board Post: NOTE-I am not related to this family Loveland Reporter Herald (Loveland, Larimer, Colorado) Wednesday Oct. 15, 2003 page B-3 Bratcher (picture) Virginia Lee Bratcher, 70, of Longmont died Oct. 13, 2003, at Boulder Community Hospital. She was born Aug. 28, 1933, in Urbana, Ill., to Thomas Patrick Boyle and Lola Blanche Smith. She graduated from Lafayette High School in 1952. She relocated to Longmont in 1964. Mrs. Bratcher was employed at Applewood Living Center as a nurse’s aide for more than 30 years. She retired in 2000. She was an avid reader, reading up to four books a week. She also had a passion for musicals and enjoyed driving through the mountains and nature. She is survived by son James Bratcher and wife Cindy of Berthoud; daughters Penny Adair and husband Bud of Longmont, Kim Bush and husband Steve of Franktown, Colo., Lorre Matson and husband Mike of Fort Morgan, and Brenda Lunder and husband Randy of Loveland; 16 grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; sister Nola Bracy of Loveland; and numerous nieces and nephews. Graveside services will be 10 a.m. Thursday at Loveland Burial Park. Family members will officiate, and friends are welcome to attend the services. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Bratcher, Nov. 23, 1963. Kibbey-Fishburn Funeral Home handled arrangements.