Obituary for C. Arthur Bratton
The Ithaca Journal, Feb 1 2000, P.4 (with photo)
 
"C. Arthur Bratton, 85, of 311 Savage Farm Drive, Ithaca, died Tuesday, January 25, 2000, at his home, having completed a full, creative, and productive life with his wife, Esther. He was much admired and appreciated by his many friends and acquaintances at Cornell University, in Cooperative Extension, in the many Ithaca and Lansing community organizations to which he contributed, and at Kendal at Ithaca, of which he was a founding member and an officer of its Residents Council.
  Art Bratton was born and reared on a general farm near Delta, Ohio. He became active as a 4-H Club member and participated in the Grange and the Future Farmers of America. Following high school graduation he enrolled in the College of Agriculture at Ohio State University in Columbus and was graduated with a B.S. degree in Rural Economics in 1937. He then came to Ithaca and Cornell University, where earned a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics in 1942. During the next three years he served in the U.S. Army, from which he was discharged as a captain in field artillery.
  Art's return to Cornell in 1946 as an Assistant Professor in the College of Agriculture began a lifelong career in farm management and Agricultural Economics. He became a full professor of Agricultural Economics in 1954 and continued at Cornell until retirement in 1979.
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  When Art was not out and around 'doing good', he was at home, gardening. That was his great hobby.
  Survivors are his wife of 50 years, daughters Judith Van Pelt and June Townley, grandchildren Matthew and Kelly MacManes, brothers James of Athens, Ohio, and Carl of Delta, Ohio, and several nieces and nephews."