Annie Merrel Branch

Mrs. Annie Merrel Branch, 90, of Elkhart, IN formerly of Union City died Thursday, October 14, 2021.

Services will be held at 1:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 21, 2021, at Rawls Funeral Home Chapel. Interment will follow in East View Cemetery.

Visitation will begin at 12:00 p.m. on Thursday at Rawls Funeral Home.

Mrs Annie Merril Branch was born in Obion County Tennessee on October 30, 1931, to the parentage of Mrs Annie Mayberry Wright & Mr. Mayfield Wright Sr. of Tennessee

Annie met Charlie Frank Taylor of Ripley, TN. and the two fell in love and married. To their union they had 5 beautiful children. Annie later met and married Frank Branch of Brownville, TN.

Annie believed in the value of honest work. As a young woman, she worked years as a housekeeper in Tennessee. She also worked in Indiana on The Toll Road as a cook and was "mmm mmm good at it!"

Annie would 'Always' be happy to be around her family. Her Smile would let you know just how much she loved You. She would always greet you with a "How -Yew" or would tell you that she's doing "Fair - to - Mid-lin" and what the family believed her favorite sayings, "I'm ready for some Dee-sert" and "whatcha got for Dee-sert."

Annie received her education from Woodland Mills School as a young girl.. However; The best learning came to Annie on September 6, 2020 (approaching her 88th birthday) through bible studies conducted by her son Donnie and his Sunday School Bro. Anthony Noel of Stonecrest Church of Christ, McDonough, GA. Annie said she fully understood the gospel and what it took to be saved; and through her obedience to the gospel, Annie was baptized and added to the body of Christ at Willowdale Ave The Church of Christ, in Elkhart, IN., on October 25, 2020. She'd say,, "well it goes to show that it's never to late to learn." She attend faithfully until she could no longer due to illness.

She was preceded in death by her husband Charlie Frank Taylor, husband Frank Branch, son James Frank Taylor and a brother, Mayfield Wright, Jr.

To cherish her memories, she leaves behind one daughter, Teresa Hunter, Elkhart, IN.; Three sons, Anthony Glen Taylor, Elkhart, IN.; Steve (Martha) Taylor, Dyer, TN.; Donnie (Lisa) Taylor, Conyers, GA. Her dear Good friend Janet Dotstry, 35 grandchildren, 17 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren, a host for family and friends. Oh how she will be missed!

Rawls Funeral Home - Union City 731-885-8110