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Died in the early morning hours of Monday, October 22, 2012, in Bay Medical Center.

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Mr. Granger Bruner, age 80, a local businessman, passed away in the early morning hours of Monday, October 22, 2012, in Bay Medical Center. He was born July 18, 1932, in Graceville, Florida, the son of Addis Lee Bruner and Ruth Beatrice Lammon Bruner.

Granger was a man with an adventurous spirit. He enjoyed taking on new projects and challenges.

He had a strong interest in history and enjoyed reading and discussing historical events with others.

His entrepreneurial spirit led him to successfully build a coin operated laundry business in Walton and Okaloosa Counties and surrounding area. He continued his business career by spending the majority of his time in real estate development and sales through his Real Estate Company, Granger Bruner Realty.

Granger is predeceased by his wife, Sally Hodges Bruner; his parents, Addis Lee Bruner and Ruth Beatrice Lammon Bruner; and his step-father, C. L. Winecoff.

He is survived by one son, one daughter, one grandson, one sister, three sisters-in-law, and a very caring group of nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

The Bruner family wishes to express their gratitude to Granger's caregivers, as well as the staff of Stanley House in DeFuniak Springs.

The family has asked that no flowers be sent, rather, memorials may be made in Granger Bruner's memory to one's favorite charity.

Visitation: 4 to 6pm, Wednesday, October 24, 2012, in the Jerry Evans Chapel.

Graveside services: 11:00am, Thursday, October 25, 2012, in Magnolia Cemetery, with Dr. Bob Jaye officiating. Burial: in the Bruner Family Plot.

Obituary courtesy of Jerry Evans Funeral Homes; DeFuniak Springs, Florida; used with permission.

Ruell married Sally Jean Hodges. Sally was born on 13 Apr 1934 in Vernon, Washington County, Florida; died on 12 Mar 2008 in DeFuniak Springs, Walton County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sally Hodges Bruner, age 73, of DeFuniak Springs, Fla., passed away Wednesday evening, March 12, 2008. She died peacefully at home after a long and courageous battle with cancer.

Mrs. Bruner was preceded in death by her parents, Agnes and Henry Hodges; her brother, Jerry Hodges; and a nephew, Hal Hodges. She is survived by her husband of 53 years, Ruell Granger Bruner; two children: daughter, Beverly Bruner Schmitt and her husband Greg of Santa Rosa Beach, Fla., and son, Adlee Bruner and his wife Patty of Bruce, Fla.; grandson, Garrett Bruner; and two precious grand dogs, Carson P. and Buddy.

Sally is also survived by three sisters, June Adair, Jackie Fentress and Mary Sue DeShazo and husband Teddy, all of DeFuniak Springs. In addition, she leaves a sister-in-law, Carol Ann Hodges; and a very caring group of nieces, nephews and cousins.

The family extends their heartfelt thanks to the staff, nurses and doctors at the Emerald Coast Cancer Care Center, 21st Century Oncology Center, and family physician, Dr. Teitelbaum, Adrienne and staff.

In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made in Sally's memory to the First Baptist Church Christian Academy, DeFuniak Springs, Fla.; or the Colon Cancer Alliance, Suite 202, 5411 North University Drive, Coral Springs, FL 33067.

A time of visitation will be Friday from 6 to 8 p.m. in Jerry Evans Chapel.

Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 15, in Magnolia Cemetery with the Rev. Jerry Chumley and Dr. Bob Jay officiating.

Arrangements and services are under the direction of Jerry Evans.

Published in the Northwest Florida Daily News from 3/14/2008 - 3/15/2008.

Addis married Ruth Beatrice Lammon on 31 Mar 1928 in Dothan, Houston County, Alabama. Ruth (daughter of Daniel McColskey Lammon and Beatrice Leonia Bailey) was born on 2 Aug 1901 in Bonifay, Holmes County, Florida; died on 25 Dec 1979 in Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia; was buried in Destin Memorial Cemetery, Destin, Okaloosa County, Florida. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

All of the following are from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, courtesy of her son Granger:

Aunt of James E. Moore, Jr.

"Ruth -
Her mother: Beatrice Leonia Bailey Lammon
Her father: Daniel McColskey Lammon
Her sisters: Inez and Jewett
Her brother: D.C.

"Ruth was named from Ruth of the Bible and from Beatrice, her own mother.

"She was born in Bonifay, Holmes County, Florida, Aug. 2, 1901, where her father was in partnership in the sawmill and monument business. Then, at the age of three weeks, the family moved by horse and buggy to Brewton, Alabama, while their furniture was shipped by railroad. Her father went to work as a "lumber tallier.

"Her mother taught kindergarten school until 1907, when they moved to a farm that Grandma Bailey (Josephene) gave Beatrice as her inheritance in Wicksburg, Alabama (7 miles from Slocomb).

"In the winter of 1907 my mother's father and sister, Inez, and myself, moved from Castleberry, Alabama, to Wicksburg, Alabama, a small crossroad village. We came by train to Slocomb, Alabama, and were met by my Grandmother Bailey's team of horses and carried out to her Plantation about 8 miles north of that sawmill town. We spent several weeks with her while my Grandmother Bailey and father got things in shape for us to move into a log house with stick-in dirt chimney. The house had 3 rooms and a small piazza (porch), Within 2 years we had one of the finest houses in the community - a two story home our father built." (Quote from Ruth). Until she was nine years old Ruth had not been to school except to visit. She then went to live with Grandma Lammon and Grandpa to attend 9 mo. of her first school in Brewton, Alabama, (Brewton Collegiate Institute). She remembers her first school as having colonial columns and all the "expensive homes She entered the second grade but, when May came, went to Wicksburg and went to the 7th grade there in 1917. She began the 8th grade in Dothan, Alabama, and moved to Graceville during World War I and finished 8th grade. Moved to Brunswick, Georgia, where Papa (her father) worked in shipyard during wartime. Ruth took her first job in Brunswick at age 14 selling hats - her first week she earned $3.50, the next week $7.50, and the next, $10.00. She worked there 8 weeks. She then went to work in a jewelry shop and stayed 1-1/2 days. Ten days later she found a job again, selling hats, and a hat trimmer from Baltimore came in and taught Ruth for 3 months how to make hats. The War ended on Nov. 11th so the family moved back to Graceville. Papa bought a farm in the Graceville, Florida, area and sold the Alabama farm. Since there was no transportation to schools, Ruth went to Hartford to stay with Grandpa and Grandma Lammon (her father's parents.) She was there only two weeks when Grandma got burned. Back to Graceville she went and attended school a little that year. Her appendix ruptured and it had to be
removed. The family then moved to Columbus, Georgia, for a year where Ruth and Inez worked in a cotton mill. Ruth ran the machines and sat reading Public Library books. She read every book the library had by Augusta J. Evans, one of her favorite authors and the author of the novel, "Inez". She then went to Dothan and entered the10th grade and completed it and part of the 11th grade at Slocomb. Ruth then journeyed to Hartford and worked for a lady who owned a hat shop, for one year without pay - for experience. The owner of the shop decided to sell Ruth half interest in the hat shop, so when Ruth was only 20 she borrowed money to go into business. She went to Atlanta, Georgia, for six weeks of training under a hat trimmer there. After she dissolved [the] partnership in Hartford. She moved to Slocomb and opened her own hat shop while living with Grandma Bailey. She was there from 1921 - 1925. She moved to Graceville and opened a hat and dress shop in 1926.

On March 31, 1928 she married Addis Lee Bruner of Cottonwood, Alabama, in Dothan, Alabama. (A judge married them, with Inez as only family witness). She kept the shop in operation in Graceville until 1938. In 1928 she gave birth to a premature baby boy (a six month term baby) who died. In 1932 (July 18) Ruell Granger Bruner was born in Graceville. He was named for his Grandmother Bruner who had been a Granger). In 1938 Ruth opened her own dress shop in DeFuniak Springs, Florida. Addis was still farming and the depression years had been hard on him. In 1944 she divorced Addis. She bought half interest in the DeFuniak Hotel (DeFuniak Springs, Florida) in 1944 and the next year bought the other half interest and continued to operate the dress shop, too. In 1946 she sold the dress shop and the following year she bought the Monroe Inn in Tallahassee.

In 1948 she married C.L. Winecoff and divorced him the next year. After he licked his problem of drinking they remarried in 1956. In 1951 she sold the Monroe Inn to Jewett and moved back to the DeFuniak Hotel. In 1951 she bought a restaurant in Niceville and operated it a year. In 1954 she bought the Walton Hotel and operated it until Feb. 1959, when it was demolished. Her son Granger used lumber and brick from it to construct the new Colonial Inn restaurant and lounge in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. In 1954 the Lammon sisters had jointly bought Silver Sands Cottages in Destin, Florida, and then sold Jewett their interest. Ruth built two rental houses in Destin in the late 1950's.

Ruth's eyes had been impaired in the early months of her life when measles settled in them and left them extremely weak. It did not stop her from reading - an avid reader, she still delights in reading anything she can get her hands on, especially history. Talented with her hands, she can create flower arrangements or tables of food that rival the most experienced florist and caterer. She is a Bible student among other things. A story about Ruth, written by Ruth while in grammar school.

RUTH, A SCOTCH LASSIE
Ruth, a Scotch lassie, entered this world
In the county site of Holmes County
In the Land of Flowers.
This event, of which I had nothing to do,
Occurred in the sultry month of August
And in the year President McKinley was assassinated.

"Being the first granddaughter on both sides, so much love was lavished on her as any one baby could well get along with. And by some quaint ancestral notions missed what most babies get, such as catnip teas, toddies, sugar tits and pacifiers. Her name is Ruth Beatrice, this last in honor of her mother and the former from the Biblical story (and as it is said, it is all in a name). From her youth up she has been building a foundation that will enable her to make her life worth while. As "lives of great men all remind us that we too can make our lives sublime."

*When Ruth meets Boaz she will ask, "Why have you found grace in my eyes".

Some lines of poetry written by Ruth in her childhood:

"Love is like an onion
We taste it with delight
But when it is gone we
Wonder what made us bite."

Died:
From "A Mess of Lammons"

Dies in Emory Hospital, Atlanta, DeKalb County, Georgia at age 78

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1880 Dale Co., Alabama Census, Barnes Cross Rd., p. 12, house 106.
1900 Geneva Co., Wright Creek Census, E.D. 72, sheet 26, dwelling 449.
Info via phone from John Duncan Lammon, P.O. Box 696, Jackson, Alabama 36545 (1996) and from Barbara Helland, 855 Mande Court, Shalimar, Fl 32579.
1910 Houston Co. Alabama Census, Wicksburg, Prict. #1, E.D. 131, sheet 7, p. 0615. MSLC #1290911 Geneva Co., Alabama Marriage Index A-Z, 1898-1979, Vol. L to Z White Males.

Daniel McColskey Lammon was educated at Macon Business College (Georgia) for two years where he studied mathematics and surveying. He returned to Alabama and married Beatrice and went into the sawmill business with his father and brothers in Whittaker, Alabama. They then moved the sawmill to Bonifay, Florida where their first child, Ruth, was born. Daniel was an excellent carpenter and constructed three homes for his family. He could entirely design and build houses. He was a bookkeeper and general manager of the Brewton Bargain House (Alabama) for a while. He later bought that business and moved it. He traveled in later years but maintained a more-or-less permanent residence in Graceville, Florida his last 20 years. He died of cancer in Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami on Jan. 22, 1945. He was buried in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, where his daughter, Ruth Lammon Bruner, lived. He was affectionately known as "Papa" to his children and five grandchildren.

--Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff

All of the following are from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, courtesy of her son Granger:

.... was in partnership in the sawmill and monument business. Then at age 3 weeks, moved by horse and buggy to Brewton, Ala. Furniture was shipped by railroad. Her father went to work as a "lumber tallier". Her mother taught kindergarten school until 1907 when they moved to a farm. Grandma Bailey gave Beatrice as her inheritance in Wicksburg, Ala* some seven miles from Slocomb. Ruth was first educated at home by her mother."

"In the winter of 1907 my mother, father and sister Inez and myself moved from Castleberry Ala. to Wicksburg, Ala., a small crossroad village. We came by train to Slocomb, Ala. and were met by my Grandmother's (Bailey) team of horses and carried out to her Plantation about eight miles north of that saw mill town and spent several weeks with her while my grandmother and father got things in shape for us to move into a long house with stickin-dirt chimney. The house had three rooms and a small porch. Within two years we had one of the finest houses in the community--a two-story home our father built.

Daniel married Beatrice Leonia Bailey on 4 Apr 1900 in Geneva County, Alabama, and was divorced about 1925. Beatrice (daughter of Benjamin Walter Bailey and Jospehene Saphrony Casey) was born on 1 Feb 1880 in Dale County, Alabama; died on 23 Jun 1933 in Slocomb, Geneva County, Alabama; was buried on 24 Jun 1933 in Newton, Dale County, Alabama. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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The following is taken from notes and records of Ruth Lammon Bruner Winecoff, via her son Granger:

"Beatrice, oldest of 7 children born to Josephene and Benjamin Bailey, was born in Dale Co., Ozark, Ala. She was educated in Ozark, Ala., where she lived with her favorite aunt, Mrs. Sara Casey Carrol. She was known as "the belle of Ozark" when she graduated in 1898. She taught school near Dothan, Ala. one year. She married Daniel McColskey Lammon, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Lammon
of Whittaker, Ala. on April 4, 1900 in Geneva County, Ala. Her wedding dress was green velvet with matching plaid taffeta featuring mutton leg sleeves. She was an excellent seamstress and sewed for many relatives. She played the piano but her main talent was elocution.

Children born of their marriage:
Ruth Beatrice Aug. 2, 1901
Inez Roberta Aug. 5, 1905
Daniel Casey April 16, 1908
Jewett Bell June 3, 1910

Beatrice died in Slocomb, Ala. on June 22, 1933 and was buried in Newton, Ala. beside her grandmother Malisia Cauley Bailey. Her marriage to Daniel had ended in divorce about 1925. She had suffered a heart condition the last 20 years of her life. She worked for the Southeastern Telephone Company, keeping the switchboard in her own home. She was known as "Central" to her customers.

Parents of Beatrice Leonia Bailey:

Josephene Saphrony Casey
Born Aug. 20, 1863
Died Sept. 18, 1949

Benjamin Walter Bailey
Born: Jan 20, 1857
Died Dec.1938

Josephene Casey was the baby of 12 children born to Nancy Norris Cox Casey and Lemuel Casey She was born on the West Fork of Choctawhatchee River in Alabama. She was a very popular young lady and known as one of the prettiest in the county, She was more or less self-educated as schools were open only three months of the year. She read a lot and was the last to sit down at spelling bees and candy pulls. She was only 15 when she married the dashing young playboy Ben Bailey and because she was recovering from typhoid fever she had to use crutches to be married. She and Ben were married at midnight as it took Ben two trips to the county seat to get a license - the first trip he was told to go get family permission for 15-year-old Josephene to marry. So he had to make another trip back to the County Seat with relatives to sign for Josey's marriage. By then it was midnight so with family members present the two were married. They had seven children in 14 years, one of whom died of diphtheria. Their oldest was Beatrice Leonia, mother of Ruth, Inez, Jewett and D.C. Lammon. By the time Josey was 36 her first grandchild, Ruth was born.

Ben Bailey's parents were Malisia Caulay and John L. Bailey who moved from Newton, Georgia, to Newton, Alabama. Ben attended Newton Academy where he studied surveying. Ben had a general store in Wicksburg, Alabama, but went bankrupt in 1895 because his bookkeeper, Mr. Whittaker misappropriated funds. So all the farmlands belonging to Josey and Ben had to be sold. Soon thereafter Casey's three brothers from Ozark, Alabama, Dan, Bill and Charlie Casey came to A1abama and re-bought the bankrupt farmlands for her and made her a free-dealer. Ben was a traveler, an adventurer. He would make a good crop, sell it and take the money and go as far away as it would take him. He once bought 1/3 interest in a railroad company. His system of living seemed based on "drink, talk, and go."

He once went to Mexico and, upon flashing big money around, was robbed of it and even the clothes he had just washed and hung on the line. As a result he stayed in a Mexico jail, waiting for his letter to reach Josephene back in Alabama - and her return letter with money to get him out - to reach Mexico. In the 1905's transportation was slow so it took communications a long time. Josephene sent him money when she finally heard from him but it has been said he walked out one day without paying his jail bond and made his way to the United States and back to Alabama. When he came back he brought a bottle of boll weevils from Texas with him. Josephene seemed to be the backbone that kept the family together. She would oversee the farmlands and handle all the business angles, as she was a very shrewd businesswoman. Ben idolized her and always called her his "Miss Josey. " All of her grandchildren and great grandchildren lovingly called her "Grandma Bailey." Their children were Beatrice, Hershel, Sabie, Rollin, Rudet, and Yancie.

She was blind the last years of her life.

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"A divorced woman, Beatrice worked as a telephone operator."