Talk:Don Bratton

From 1950 Fan Directory:

Name: BRATTON, Donald Warren
Address: 14302 Miranda St., Van Nuys [California]
Phone: ST 01978
Sex: M
Birthdate: May 3, 1926
Fan Organizations: FF, FAPA

From Find a Grave:

BIRTH: 3 May 1926, California, USA
DEATH: 10 Feb 1985 (aged 58), Ventura County, California, USA
BURIAL: Ivy Lawn Memorial Park, Ventura, Ventura County, California, USA
PLOT: Section K Lot 503 Grave 11

1930 census shows him with his mother and father in Beverly Hills; 1940 on Sunset Blvd with them. There's a D. W. Bratton in the 1947 Caltech yearbook, and in the 1950 census he appears to have been attending UChicago, as he was living in a dorm at 6208 S Drexel Ave, very close to the present-day (and maybe back then, too) UChicago Law School campus. He appears in a 1973 city directory for Oxnard, Ventura County.

Not to be confused with Donald William Bratton, who was born in Ohio.

That's all that's easy to find about his mundane life. I see him in LASFS stuff, and he appeared to be trying to compile a bibliographic index. Bee Ostrowsky (talk) 09:47, 4 January 2024 (PST)