Gillian Sarah Brannon

© Enid News and Eagle

06-20-2006

Submitted by: Jo Aguirre

Glenn

The funeral for Gillian Sarah Brannon, 85, of Alva, will be 2 p.m. Thursday in Wentworth Mortuary Chapel, Carmen. The Rev. Carolyn Murrow, of Freedom Methodist Church, will officiate. Burial will be in Pleasant View Cemetery southwest of Dacoma. Arrangements are by Wentworth Mortuary, Carmen.

She was born Oct. 9, 1920, to Arles Percy and Anna Salwaechter Riggs on her grandparents farm and died Sunday, June 18, 2006, at Share Convalescent Home in Alva.

She went to Green Valley Grade School and attended Carmen High School. She married Leo Brannon on Dec. 7, 1937, and they lived in Alva, Arkansas City, Kan., Enid and Wichita, Kan.

She worked at stores in the meat department and for a packing plant wrapping and packing meat. She was a member of St. Joseph Catholic Church in Wichita. She moved to Alva in December 2001 and entered Share Convalescent Home.

Surviving are two sisters, Billie Bell of Wichita and Alberta Bliss of Carmen; and one brother, Wallace Riggs of Long Beach, Calif.

She was preceded in death by her husband, one daughter, one son and three brothers.

Memorials may be made through the funeral home to Northwestern Oklahoma State University for the Max and Alberta Bliss Scholarship Fund.

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