The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1909-12-27
BODY OF WILBY BRANNoN
BURIED AT GREENWOOD
Funeral Was Held Saturday and Was
- Largely Attended. Death
Was Sad One.

All that was mortal of the late
Wildly Brannon, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. S. Brannon, was laid to rest at
Greenwood, Bemidji's city of the
dead, Christmas forenoon, large
number of personal friends of the
family following the remains to their
last resting place. The funeral
services were held at the home of
Mr.. and Mrs. Brannon, at 10 o'clock,
Rev. c. E. White, pastor of the M.
E. church, officiating.
The home was crowded with those
who had come to pay their last
tribute to the deceased, and the
services were impressive and beauti-
| full.
Rev. White paid a beautiful til.
butte to the memory of Wilbur, and
spoke of his devotion to his home
and the loved ones who so bitterly
mourned his untimely taking off.
The officiating clergyman spoke
words of comfort and cheer to the
weeping relatives and reiterated
the promise of Him that doeth all
things VII, who looks after the
little things of life, as we'll as the big
SORROWS, and who promised life
everlasting to those who had faith
in Him.
The casket was covered with the
most beautiful flowers that loving
hands ever wrought, all of which
spoke of peace, purity and immortal
ity. The music rendered Was such
as to soften all hearts and moisten
all eyes.
At the conclusion of the beautiful
services, a crowd followed the body
to the silent city,"
IT, Clustering about the flowers that
will be blooming there, mingling
with the oppressive silence that
shrouds the revered SCOT, and CULVER
ing amidst the gloom of the grave, the
hottest memories speak in tones that
fill the ear and thrill the sorrowing
heart. All that was of the life that
was has faded into the night of end
less sleep; its lights and its shadows;
its sweetness and its nobility; its
power and its purity, pass before us
like rapidly-moving panaroma.
Under such influences, with such a
thrilling picture of days gone by and
of worthy deeds done, we pause for a
time to speak of the beloved dead.
Wildly Brannon's retiring nature
led him to hide his best qualities
from the public gaze, but they
were revealed to those who knew
him, yet it was in the home of his
parents that his true worth was
most conspicuous. He was kind,
loving son, and his devotion to the
family circle had no limit, as pa.
thetic incident will show:
1t is said that the day the tele-
gram was received announcing the
sudden accidental death of Wildly,
Mrs. w. S. Brannon, his mother,
received long letter from the boy,
written from Lolo Springs, Mont,
enclosing $40 for his mother and
wishing her merry Christmas d
a happy New Year, and telling OF
his advancement as an engineer with
the N. P. Railway. Sad indeed was
Christmas to this loving mother,
when the future promised so much
for her boy.
Wildly Brannon was born in the
village of Forest River, N. D., on
july II, 1887, and came to Bemidji
with his parents two years later,
remaining here a year and then
returning to Forest River, coming
back to this city finally in 1902.
He was at Northome during 1905.
O6, an then began work with Engi.
neer Huss in the construction of the
Big Falls-International Falls exten.
sion of the M. & l. Railway.
Wildly worked as chairman at
different times for Nj. D. Stoner,
city engineer; and last May he went
to Montana, securing situation
with the N. P. Railway company.
It was while working as chain.
man with gang of engineers, near
Lolo Springs, that Wildly was killed.
He was standing some so feet to one