Extracted from The Advocate (Baton Rouge, LA)
Tuesday, February 14, 1978

BRANCH, VIOLA (MONA) HERRON

Died at 9:50 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 12, 1978, at Zachary Manor Nursing Home, Zachary. She was 84, a native of Mansura and a resident of Zachary. Body at Hollabaugh-Spindle's Wooddale Memorial Chapel with visiting from 8 to 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Religious services at St. Alphonsus Catholic Church at 10 a.m. Tuesday. Burial in Greenwood Cemetery, Pineville, at 3 p.m. Tuesday.

Survived by one daughter, Mrs. Roy Routier, Zachary; one son, James K. Richey, Lakewood, Colo.; eight grandchildren; 13 great-grandchildren.

Preceded in death by her husband, Jean Branch.

She was a member of St. Alphonsus Catholic Church.