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8:02 pm Monday, December 18, 2006

Carolyn Bracken

By Staff
December 14, 2006
Carolyn Bracken, age 74, of Phil Campbell, passed away Thursday, December 14, 2006.
Mrs. Bracken was a native of Franklin County. She was preceded in death by her parents, Andrew and Lena Harris; and her siblings.
Funeral services were held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, December 16, 2006, in Akins Funeral Home Chapel with Bro. Jack Harris and Bro. Orbie Harris officiating. Interment was in Oak Grove Cemetery.
Pallbearers were Andrew Hulsey, Andrew Flanagan, Adam Smith, Doug Harris, Michael Lawler and Orval Harris.
Mrs. Bracken is survived by a son, Randy Bracken of Phil Campbell; two daughters, Anita Smith and husband Max, of Fairburn, Georgia, and Diane Hulsey and husband Tim, of Russellville; a sister, Pauline Boyles of Muscle Shoals; four brothers, Ira Harris of Russellville, Orbie Harris of Fairburn, Georgia, Lowell Harris of Russellville and Jack Harris of Waterloo; seven grandchildren, Andrew Hulsey, Christie Hulsey, Vanessa Feltman, Adam Smith, Leanda Johns, Kendall Bracken and Andrew Flanagan; and eight great-grandchildren, Sydney, Jacob and Ashley Feltman, and Braxton, Cydney, Jordan, Layne and Cayden Johns.
Akins Funeral Home assisted the family.

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