Laveda Mae Brantley

Brantley Laveda Mae Bowen Brantley, 77, of Dayton, died Thursday, April 12, 2012, at the Harbor Hospice in Beaumont. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m., Sunday, April 15, 2012, at the Pace-Stancil Funeral Home in Dayton with burial following at Palms Memorial Park in Dayton. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., Saturday, at the funeral home. Services are under the direction of Pace-Stancil Funeral Home in Dayton. Laveda was born February 7, 1935 in Dyess, AR, to parents; Walter M. and Veo Cadle Bowen, a former resident of Liberty and has resided in Dayton for the past 35 years. She was a retired cashier for Wal-Mart of Liberty after 18 years of employment, a former employee of the Houston Chronicle, Grocer’s Supply, and Sammy’s Steakhouse, member and participant at the Dayton Senior Citizen’s Center, and enjoyed ceramics, aquariums, birds, and especially her grandchildren. Mrs. Brantley was preceded in death by her parents, father of her children: Charles R. Brantley, son: Donald Lee Brantley, husband: Bobbie Rae Conway, and brothers: Edward and Leroy Bowen. She is survived by her daughter: Ladonna Spurgeon and husband Buster, Jr. of Dayton, son: Dale Brantley and wife Candy of Liberty, sister: Racheal Bowen of Dayton, brother: Leon Bowen of Dayton, grandchildren: Leslie Rolirad, Jana Bowser, Tara Davis, Adrian Meche, and Sabrina Whitehead, nine great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces, nephews, other relatives, and friends.