Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-02-04
BRANCH FUNERAL TAKES
PLACE At NOON TO-DAY
Veteran Banker VIII BE Laid to Rest
I'm Hollywood Gene
terry.
PALLBEARERS WELL.KNOWN
Services Will BE Held at Centenary
Methodist Church, of Which Mr..
Branch Was for Many Years an
Officer.

John Patteson Branch. veteran bank
or and philanthropist. who died ut his
| home. l West Franklin Street on Tues
| day night, will be laid to rest to-day.
| rho funeral services will be held at -
o'clock. noon, in Centenary Methodist
| church. of which he had been trus-
tee and steward for many years. Inter
| mcnt Will bc in the family section in
! hollywood Cemetery, in which lies the
body OF his wife
The services will be conducted by
Bishop Collins Denny. assisted by Rev.
Samuel G. Hatcher, D. D.. and Rev.
Thomas ~ Smoot. D. ID. Other local
ministers will also aid I'm the obsequics.
PALL-BEARERs SELECTED FROM
LIFELONG ASSOCIATES
| Pallbearcrs have been selected from
among the business associates and life
! long friends of Mr.. Branch. The active
pailbearcrs are men OF Il Younger gem
| Grafton, many of whom have been init
matcly connected with the aged banker.
! The pallhearerS follow:
| tonorary-Major James II. Dooley.
Senator Claude y. Swanson. Colonel
| William III. Palmer. John r. Glenn. Will
liam IL. White. Henry Walters Charles
w. Hardwickc. John C. Freeman. Gus
tavus Millhiser, George w Stevens
James b. Pace. Colonel Archer Andcr-
! son. Judge Edmund Waddill. Jr, John
Shelton Williams. Leigh II. Page, Judge
| James Keith. +. II. Mayo DR.. Edwin l..
| Hobson, c. y. Langhornc, DR. George
Ross, .. S. Morton. James CaslSie, Bur
nett Lewis. John McGill. Alexander
Hamilton, James y. Boyd. j. Stewart
| Bryan. DR.. Stuart Mcclure. s. II Nor
, gan, Rev, j. T. Mastin. DIR. Edward Nc
CURE, Milton +. Marcusc, Judge George
l.. Christian, Lieutenant Governor j.
Taylor Ellyson. DR.. Joseph y. White.
! Dr. Alexander G. Brown, Jr, f.. r..
Glasgow, Captain w. Gordon McCabe.
Active-Thomas Il. McAdams, Fred
s. Campbell. Carter II. Grundy, c. C.
Pinckney. G. l.. Vandcrslce. Robert g.
Cabell. Buford Scott. Coleman Worth
am. James r.. Sloan. w l.. Buford
MANY EXPRESSIONS OF
REGRET ARE HEARD
Tho death OF MIR. Branch. which oc
CURED shortly after o'clock. on Tues
day night, cast Il gloom over the city
yesterday when it became generally
known. Expressions OF regret were
! heard on every side. rs Mr.. Branch had
for years been the foremost figure IN
! Richmond's financial. philanthropic and
! religious life.
( Being a national institution, the
/ Merchants National Bank, OF which Mr..
| Branch was president, conducted it's
| business as usual Yesterday, although
| crepe hung on the front door Black
| was also drapcd over the entrances to
the Branch Baths in the East and West
| Ends
Suitable resolutions on the death of
| Mr.. Branch were adopted yesterday at
meeting of the Clearing House Asso-
citation of Richmond, of which he had
| recently been elected president, sue
| cecding Colonel John r. Purcell. presi-
dent of the First National Bank
| students Of Randolph Macon College
! and citizens of Ashland will unite
to-day in memorial services in honor
| OF Mr.. Branch. The services will be
held in tho college chapel ut noon, the
| hour fixed for the funeral services in
| Richmond, and will be conducted by
| Rev. John Kern, of the college faculty.