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extracted text: Collection Summary
Title
Brackenbury Family History
Date
2015
Extent
1 archival folder
Name and Location of Repository
Midwest Genealogy Center, Independence (Mo.)
Reference code: MGC 1186-BFH
Processed by: Jolene Clark, 2019; finding aid created by Jolene Clark, 2019.
Name of Creator
Robert Brackenbury
Biographical History
Robert “Bob” Brackenbury was born in Independence, Missouri in 1927. He spent most of his life in
Independence. He served in the military during World War II. Using the GI Bill after the war, Bob to
attend art school in at Graceland College, Academie Juelian in Paris, France, and the Los Angeles Art
College in California. A scholarship brought him to Detroit where he worked for GM. It was there he
married Mary Lou Goulder in 1951. She too was from Independence, Missouri and after spending a
short time in Michigan and a few years in California, they returned to Independence, Missouri to raise
their family.
Scope and Content
As I Live and Breathe and Okuna and the Kabuki Dance are both hand printed autobiography of Robert
Brackenbury telling of his family history as well as his experiences growing up during the Depression,
serving in the military in World War II, and his family life after the war. Other stories from his life are
recorded in an oral history through the Tell Me A Story program at the Midwest Genealogy Center.

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Collection Inventory
System of Arrangement
These records are arranged in 1 folder.
Folder 1,
Item 1, As I Live and Breathe by Robert Brackenbury
Item 2, Okuni and the Kabuki Dance by Robert Brackenbury

Rights and Access
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research use by appointment.
Physical Access
Records within this collection are housed in a file folder.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Languages and Scripts of the Material
Materials in the collection are entirely in English.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated by Bob Brackenbury.
Accruals
No further accruals are expected for this collection.
Related Collections
Midwest Genealogy Center, Mid-Continent Public Library, Independence, Missouri , “Oral Interview with
Bob Brackenbury,” Genealogy Gallery, http://content.mymcpl.org/items/show/10054.
Existence and Location of Originals
Originals owned by the Midwest Genealogy Center.
Notes
The following sources were consulted during the preparation of the biographical history:
 Ancestry.com. Michigan, Marriage Records, 1867-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA:
Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2015.

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