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Extracted from The Winn Parish Enterprise (Winnfield, LA)
Funeral Services Held Thursday For James Branch
James Wendell Branch, 24, of New Hope community, was buried Thursday afternoon
following his death Wednesday in Winnfield General Hospital.
Funeral services were at 2:30 p.m. in New Hope Methodist Church with Rev. Roy
Grant, officiating, and burial was in New Hope Cemetery under direction of
Southern Funeral Home.
Wendell had been ill for several months with a kidney ailment, and was
confined to the hospital for several weeks during that time. He had been
taken home recently, when his condition grew worse he was returned to the
hospital.
Survivors are his mother, Mrs. Morgan Branch; two brothers, Jack Branch of
Jonesboro and John Branch of Ruston; three sisters, Mrs. G. C. Cockerham of
Gaars Mill, Mrs. Alson Jeter of Winnfield, and Mrs. Ivey Rolen, also of
Winnfield.
Thursday, November 16, 1950