Tony Lynn Brackens was born on Aug. 6, 1949 in Dallas, to parents Okeith Montgomery and Fairfield native Dorothy Brackens.
He attended Dallas schools: J. W. Ray Elementary, St. Peter’s Academy and F.D. Roosevelt High School. He loved visiting his grandparents, Osker and Hortense Brackens in Fairfield, where in his youth he visited during the summers.
He acquired summer jobs working on area…