Brad Brumles Passes

BRAD BRUMLEY DIES AT AGE 88

HENDERSON, TN
Former Freed-Hardeman University faculty member Brad Brumley, 88, of Forrest City, Ark., died Jan. 28 in Forrest City. Funeral services will be held at the Marianna Church of Christ in Marianna, Ark., Feb. 1 at 11 a.m., with Dr. L.C. Mitchell officiating. Visitation will be Jan. 31 from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Stevens Funeral Home in Forrest City. Burial will be at the Memorial Park Cemetery in Henderson.

Brumley served as dean of students at FHU. He also held positions as chairman of the Department of Education and vice president of student affairs. Brumley was instrumental in several prominent university programs, including Makin' Music and the Christian Training Series. He was also a minister, serving congregations in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee and Texas.

Brumley was preceded in death by his wife, Betty, in 1964. He is survived by four daughters, Susan Tooms of Forrest City, Teresa Green of Tennessee, Markie Bennett of Bethel Springs, Tenn., and Marie Golden of Columbus, Miss.; one brother, Bill Brumley of Columbus; and three grandchildren.

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When my wife and I moved to Henderson in 1966 to attend Freed-Hardeman, we rented the house that Brad Brumley lived in. The Naylors were in the front side of the house and Carole and I lived in the back side.

--- Tom L. Childers

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Brad Brumley was born August 3, 1917, in Marietta, Mississippi. A graduate of Freed-Hardeman College, he attended Murray State University, Mississippi Southern University, and Harding College, where he received both the B.A. and M.A. degrees. The educator taught in Mississippi public schools before serving three years in the U. S. Air Force.

He served as head of Freed-Hardeman's Education-Psychology Department from 1957 to 1966 and returned to the college in June, 1971, as Dean of Students. A pioneer in the educational work of the church, Brumley has participated in more than two hundred Bible school clinics, including areawide workshops and those conducted on Christian college campuses. He appeared in the volume of Who's Who in America.

Formerly minister of the Estes Church of Christ, Henderson, Tennessee, Brumley has also served congregations in Marmaduke and Rector, Arkansas; Austin, Texas; and Columbus, Mississippi.

He is married to the former Shirley Maserone and is the father of a daughter, Mrs. Gary Naylor, two adopted daughters, Markie and Terry, two foster daughters, Marie and Pat, and two foster sons, Larry and Bruce.

--- 1972 Freed-Hardeman Lectures, 441.