Beckham County, OK - Obits: Granville Clifford Branham, 1929
25 Sep 2007
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell) 

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BRANHAM, GRANVILLE CLIFFORD
(1 Aug 1929, Elk City Newspaper, Elk City, Beckham Co, OK):
Granville Clifford Branham, son of B. D. and Labelle Branham, was born in
Atlanta, Missouri, October 4, 1887, and passed away in Tulsa, Oklahoma,
July 16, 1929, at the age of 41 years, 9 months and 12 days.
His childhood and early manhood was spent in the town of his birth, where
he attended school and received his elementary education.
When Clifford was seven years of age, he lost his father, a man of
wonderful talents and high Christian character.  Throughout his childhood
and early manhood, Mr. Branham enjoyed the privileges of a Christian home
and the influence of a mother who daily walked with God, and upon his
early home training was his character founded, and the basis laid for an
honorable and useful life, his ability to make and hold friends, and his
respect for only the highest of ideals.
He was married to Marjorie Lucinda Parks at Perry, Oklahoma, the 16th of
September, 1908.  To this union was born three children, a little son,
James Russell, who died in infancy, and Katherine Elizabeth, aged 11, and
Betty Jeanne, aged 6, who are left to mourn the loss of a devoted father.
Of his many sterling qualities, the most outstanding ones were his
devotion to his family, and his loyalty to his friends.  His first thought
was to provide comforts and pleasures of life for his little family, and
his chief delight was to work about his home, improving it and making it a
pleasant place to abide.
He was a hard worker, faithfully performing whatever tasks fells to his lot.
He had a decided talent for music, possessing a beautiful voice, and one
of his great ambitions was to provide opportunities for musical education
of his two little daughters.
The hope of meeting this greatly beloved man in a brighter, better world,
is the sustained hope of his loved ones whom he is leaving behind - his
loved and faithful wife, his daughters Betty and Katherine, his sisters,
Mrs. F. H. Carpenter, and Mrs. W. Y. Edwards, Elk City, Oklahoma, and his
mother Mrs. Belle Branham, also of Elk City and a host of other relatives
and friends.