Cornelius Bracken Jr.

Published 12:00 am Friday, October 30, 2009

FROGMORE, La. — Services for Cornelius Bracken Jr., 51, of Oakland, Calif., formerly of Ferriday, who died Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2009, at John Muir Hospital in Walnut Creek, Calif., will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at St. James Baptist Church with the Rev. L.B. Oliver officiating.

Burial will follow at the church cemetery under the direction of Concordia Funeral Home in Ferriday.

Mr. Bracken was born July 5, 1958, in Ferriday, the son of Cornelius and Dorothy White Bracken.

Survivors include his wife, Helen Bracken of Oakland; one son, LaShawn Hammond of Dallas; one daughter, Myaisha Bracken of Oakland; his mother, Dorothy, of Ferriday; three stepchildren, Tamarkus and Tonney Killensworth and Yolanda Cotton; one brother, Clarence Allen White and wife, Annie, all of Oakland; one sister, Rosie Booth and husband, Billy, of Augusta, Ga.; one godson, André Christian of Hayward, Calif.; and two aunts, Anna Warren of Galveston, Texas and Ellen White of Alexandria, La.