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September 2002 Pauline F. [South] Brannon July 17, 1909 ~ September 13, 2002 Pauline F. Bannon, 93, died Friday, Sept. 13, 2002, at Salem, S.C. Services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday at the Strode Chapel. Rev. B. Gordon Edwards will officiate. Interment will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Funeral arrangements are under the direction of Strode Funeral Home. Brannon was born July 17, 1909, in Center, Ky., to John Waddy and Mary Olive [Curry] South. She moved to Oklahoma with her parents as a child. She graduated from Bartlesville High School with honors. After graduation, she worked as a secretary in the local county agricultural extension office in Bartlesville, where she met her husband, Luther Brannon. They married Sept. 30, 1930, in Bartlesville, just as the first signs of the Great Depression were beginning to appear. From that date forward, they functioned as a team. In 1938, her husband accepted a position as a secretary-manager of the Oklahoma Crop Improvement Association and moved to Stillwater. He joined the Oklahoma Agricultural Extension Services at Oklahoma A&M College in 1940. With the exception of overseas assignments in Europe (Marshall Plan), Ethiopia [OSU and Foreign Aid Program[ and [Vietnam Foreign Aid Program], the couple lived in Stillwater continuously. While Luther was in the Navy during World War II, Brannon worked as an assistant home demonstration agent for Payne County. When her son, Russell, was in high school, she began taking classes at OAMC, completing a baccalaureate degree in home economics, with a major in family life and child development. While in college, she was a a member of Phi Kappa Phi and Omicron Nu. She also served for a time as president of the Sigma Chi Mothers Association. When the Tri Delta Sorority established a chapter at OSU in 1962, she was one of six people chosen for initiation. She was also active in PEO and an active member of the Presbyterian Church. She loved to play bridge and was an accomplished player, participating in several bridge groups. She was an avid reader throughout her life and seldom missed working the crossword puzzles in the local newspaper wherever she was. Until shortly before her death, she continued to care for herself in her South Carolina home, where she enjoyed the flower and vegetable gardens, watching the variety of birds, squirrels, rabbits and and other wildlife that frequented the area near her house. Dining at the local Thai restaurant was a favorite outing, as were trips in the John Deere "Gator" along trails in the wooden area. She will be greatly missed by her family and many friends whose lives she influenced. She is preceded in death by her husband, who died Oct. 19, 1996. Brannon is survived by her son, Russell Brannon, Salem, S.C.; two grandchildren, Shaun Brannon, Austin, Texas and Scot Brannon, Seattle, Wash.; two great grandchildren, Tristan and Dana, Austin; and and one sister, Claudine Smith and husband M.D., Florida. Memorials may be made to the First Presbyterian Church of Stillwater, 524 S. Duncan, Stillwater 74074 or the charity of your choice. |
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