Vincent Walter Branigan (-2007)
BRANIGAN, OCONNOR, STROHL, LOWRY, CHILDS, FERGUSON
Posted By: Ames Tribune
Date: 6/30/2007 at 08:54:22
THE AMES TRIBUNE, Ames, Story County, Iowa, Saturday, June 30, 2007.
Vincent Walter Branigan, 90, a resident of Eastern Star Masonic Home of Boone since 2006, and formerly of Pocahontas, died Sunday, June 24, at Eastern Star Masonic Home of Boone. Funeral Mass will be at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, July 5, at Church of the Sacred Heart of Boone, with Father Steve Brodersen officiating. Memorial services will be at 2:30 p.m. Thursday, July 5, in Calvary Cemetery in Pocahontas, with Father Merrill Collasch officiating. Military honors will be conducted at the graveside by Pocahontas American Legion Post 18.
Vincent Walter Branigan was born in Pocahontas, the son of Walter William and Alyce Margaret (O'Connor) Branigan. Growing up, he attended schools in the Pocahontas area. He went on to attend Iowa State University, where he took agricultural courses.
He entered the U.S. Army in 1942, where he served for four years. He entered France one week after the D-Day invasion. He was injured in Germany in April 1945 and spent one year recovering at McCloskey General Hospital in Temple, Texas. He was awarded the Bronze Star and Purple Heart.
After the war, he worked as a field man for the Berkshire News and later the Hamps. During this time, he married Barbara Edna Baldwin May 25, 1953. A year later, the couple settled on a farm in Pocahontas County that he still farmed at the time of his death. The couple moved to an acreage near Boone in 1979.
He was a member of Resurrection of Our Lord Catholic Church of Pocahontas, Church of the Sacred Heart of Boone, Pocahontas County Board of Supervisors and Advisory Board, Professional Farmers of America and Farm Bureau, of Boone and Pocahontas. He also traveled abroad extensively in agricultural areas.
He is survived by his wife, Barbara, of Boone; one daughter, Kathy Strohl and her husband, John, of Madrid; one sister, Benita Lowry, of Las Vegas; two nieces and one nephew, Teresa Childs, of Las Vegas, Elizabeth Ferguson, of Dallas, and John Lowry, of Las Vegas; and numerous cousins and other relatives.
He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Ronald.
Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m., with the family present from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, July 4, at Schroeder-Walter Funeral Home, Fifth and Story streets of Boone. A rosary will be at 4:30 p.m. and a vigil service at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
Memorials will be given to the Iowa State University Agricultural Endowment for Support of Scholarships and Seminars and the Sisters of St. Francis of the Holy Family in Dubuque.
Schroeder-Walter Funeral Home, Fifth and Story streets of Boone, is in charge of arrangements.
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