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- His parents were James Mitchell BROYLES (1864-1946) and Alice TRAYLOR (1878-1961).
He married first to Ellizabeth PITTMAN
He married second to Gabrielle Louise MOSS/JACKSON.
He married third to Maddie Lou LAMMON. They had two children: Charles Edwin Broyles (1954-2007) and unknown daughter.
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Maj. J.E. Broyles
SEABROOK - Funeral services for Maj. James E. Broyles. 72, of 617 Bradley St.. will be held at 10 a.m. today in the Jack H.. Rowe Funeral Home, League City. A chaplain from Ellington Air Force Base will officiate.
Burial will be in Veterans Administration Cemetery, Houston.
Maj. Broyles died Saturday in a Houston hospital.
He was born April 29, 1900, in Riverside, Tex.
Retired from the U. S. Air Force, Maj. Broyles was a member of the American Legion, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and the Knights of Pythias and was a 32nd degree Mason.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Madie L. Broyles; a son, Charles E. Broyles of Seabrook; a daughter, Mrs. Gloria G. Gammon of Colorado Springs, Colo.; two brothers, Otis Broyles of Houston and William Broyles of Beaumont, Calif.; and one grandchild.
Galveston Daily News
July 18 1972
- General Notes: Info and note from daughter Gloria Gene Broyles.
Bubba Broyles was born in the year 1900 in Riverside, Texas. His mother's name was Alice Traylor Broyles, and he was one of 3 children. Bubba loved to play the cornet; he ran away from home in 1916 and joined the Army Air Corp where he was a 'Bugle Boy'. Later in life, he would play with Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey in Louisiana. Bubba passed away in 1972.
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