Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Tuesday, November 11, 1986

BRANCH, MARGARET M. ``GAGA''

Died 6:07 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 9, 1986, at Baton Rouge General Medical Center. She was 68, a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland, and a resident of Baton Rouge 40 years.

Visiting at Hollabaugh-Spindle Wooddale Memorial Chapel, 8 to 10 a.m. Tuesday. Religious services at St. Augustine Episcopal Church, 10:30 a.m. Tuesday, conducted by the Rev. Robert O. Mitchell. Burial in Greenoaks Memorial Park.

Survived by three daughters, Mrs. Charles (Alice) Hutchins, Mrs. Dennis (Gloria) Kramer, and Beth Branch; a son, Hubert Henry ``Hubie'' Branch; and a daughter-in-law, Janice Branch, all of Baton Rouge; a sister, Mrs. Agnes Culbert, Belfast, Ireland; two granddaughters, Tonya Lynn Sevier and Caitrin Elizabeth Branch; a niece and five nephews. Preceded in death by husband, Hubert Branch; and parents, Henry and Jane Elder.

Pallbearers will be Hubert Branch, Charles Hutchins, Dennis Kramer, Craig Strickland, Samuel Butcher and Gordon Hatchell. Honorary pallbearers are Pete Romano, C.J. Perque, and George Culbert.

She was a charter member of St. Augustine Episcopal Church and a member of Daughters of Union Jack.

Memorial donations may be made to American Lung Association or Cancer Society of Greater Baton Rouge, 650 Steele Blvd., 70806.