CARTER COUNTY, TN - OBITUARIES - Violet Grace Branch, 22 Feb 2005
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Mrs. Violet Grace Branch, 97, formerly of Liberty Hollow Road, Elizabethton,
died Tuesday, February 22, 2005, at Ivy Hall Nursing Home.

Mrs. Branch was a lifelong resident of Carter County and the daughter of the
late Abraham and Rachel Williams.

Mrs. Branch was a Charter member and the oldest living member of Union Hill
Freewill Baptist Church and also attended New Liberty Freewill Baptist Church.

Mrs. Branch was preceded in death by her husband, Willie M. Branch; a
daughter, Loretta P. Diamond; two sons, Martin Van Branch and Carrick Ben
Branch Sr.; six brothers, Teddy, Albert, Dewey, Lon, Rex and Harry Williams;
and six sisters, Pearl Williams, Ruby Nidiffer, Daisy Grindstaff, Georgie
Lewis, Josie Hodges and Flossie Williams.

Survivors include a daughter, Jeanetta B. Webb, Elizabethton; a daughter-in-
law, LaVerne Kennedy Branch, Crystal River, Fla.; and 11 grandchildren, Kathy
Webb, Kenneth Webb, Kaye Webb Garland, Noel Branch, Jewel Ward, Joann
Nidiffer, Carrick Ben Branch Jr., April Head, Lori Helmdach, Susie Vearner and
Donald Diamond. Eighteen great-grandchildren, five great-great-grandchildren
and several nieces and nephews also survive.

Funeral services will be conducted at 1 p.m. Friday, February 25, in the
Chapel of Peace of Tetrick Funeral Home. Interment will follow in the Blevins
Cemetery. The family will receive friends beginning at 12 noon Friday in the
chapel of the funeral home. Active pallbearers will be grandsons, and Leonard
Lewis, A.B. Grindstaff and Walter Pierce. Honorary pallbearers will be Mack
Pierce, Kenneth Williams, Wesley Grindstaff, K.C. Vearner, Sandy Helmdach,
Justin Branch, Keith Head, John Diamond, Lynn Williams and Theodore Williams.
Words of condolence and sympathy may be e-mailed to the family through our Web
site: www.tetrickfuneralhome.com. Tetrick Funeral Home, 211 North Riverside
Drive, Elizabethton, (423) 542-2232, is serving the family of Mrs. Branch.

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