Obituaries: Edd Branch, 1938, Winn Parish, LA
Submitted by Greggory E. Davies, 120 Ted Price Lane, Winnfield, LA 71483
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From: December 29, 1938 Winn Parish Enterprise

Last Rites Held For Edd Branch, Wreck Victim

Last rites were held for Edd Branch of Olla at the Harmony Grove Cemetery,
Gaars Mill, on December 21st.  Mr. Branch died at a Columbia clinic on
December 20th as a result of injuries received several weeks ago in a car
wreck.  The Rev. J. D. Kitchingham, pastor of the Olla Baptist Church,
delivered the sermon.  A large number of relatives and friends attended the
last rites.

The deceased was an employee of the Riser Funeral Home of Columbia.  He was
reared in the Harmony Grove community and had been a member of the Harmony
Grove church since 1916.

Surviving are his widow, the former Miss Ether Womack; four sons, three
daughters, and aged mother, three brothers, three sisters, besides numerous
other relatives.