Kenneth E. Brandon

Kenneth E. Brandon, 74 of Girard, died on Saturday February 16, 2007 at St. Vincent Hospital. He was born August 31, 1933 in Franklin Pa., a son of the late Roy J. and Florence M. Lawson Brandon.

Kenneth graduated from Fairview High School in 1952. Following high school he was inducted into the U.S. Army, where he was deployed to Korea and Germany. Upon his discharge from the military he returned to the West County Area and worked at Fairview Evergreen Nursery. In 1967 he began working for Parker-White metal (now PHB Die Cast) where he retired as a foreman in 1995. He was a member of the Girard American Legion Post #474 and also the Fairview American Legion Post # 742. He enjoyed hunting, vegetable gardening and bowling.

Along with his parents he is preceded in death by one sister, Geraldine Platz and five brothers Vernie "Buzz", Samuel, Charles, Thomas, and Herbert Brandon. Also a grandson Samuel Brandon in January of 2008. He is survived by his wife Lorraine J. Snow Brandon, whom he married June 14, 1956 also by a daughter, Connie A. Buerk and her husband Mark E. of Dunnellon, Fla.; five sons, Larry E. Hudy of Phoenixville, Pa. Thomas E. Brandon and his wife Cindy, James R. Brandon and his wife Julia K., Kenneth A. Brandon and his wife Carol L. all of Girard, and Edward R. Brandon of Albion; three sisters, Verna McDougall of Fairview, Dorothy Hawley and her husband Sam of Harborcreek and Bonnie Hawley and her husband John of Erie; two brothers, William James Brandon of Erie and Donald Brandon of Munford, Tenn.; seventeen grandchildren, one great grandchild and several nieces and nephews.

Friends may call on Tuesday from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. at Daniel R. Edder Funeral Home, 309 Main St. East, Girard. Services will be held there on Wednesday at 10 a.m., Rev. Wayne Hennen pastor of the Albion Church of the Nazarene will officiate. Memorials may be made to Shriner's Hospital for Children 1645 West 8th St. Erie, PA 16505. Burial with full military honors will be held in the Girard Cemetery.

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