FIRST SERMON PREACHED-MAY 15-1957....LAST SERMON PREACHED-JUNE-22-2020

THE LIFE OF A LEGEND BORN IN A SMALL TOWN CALLED CUSHING OK.

REVEREND KERMIT LEE BRANNON SR.

AFFECTIONATELY CALLED " TRAMP " BY HIS BIG SISTER PAMELA JO.

APRIL SHOWERS BRINGS MAY FLOWER'S ON MAY 15 1957 A SON WAS DESTINED TO BE BORN.

TO THE LATE RAYMOND LEE JR.AND GLADYS BRANNON, WHO THEY NAMED KERMIT LEE BRANNON IN CUSHING OK.

AND TO THAT UNION EIGHT CHILDREN WAS BORN. (RL) RAYMOND LEE BRANNON lll, ELWEEEDER, ESTHER, LEON, DIANA BRANNON, AND A VERY SPECIAL GRANDFATHER THE LATE (DADDY RAY ) RAYMOND LEE BRANNON SR. ( WHO PROUDLY SERVED AS ACUSHING POLICE OFFICER )

KERMIT LEAVES TO CHARISH HIS LOVING BIG BROTHER WHO LOVED KERMIT DEARLY JIMMY LOUIS BRANNON

( ROMANA ), AND A VERY VERY OVER PROTECTIVE LOVING BIG SISTER WHO WOULD MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH TO MEET ANY AND EVERY NEED HER BABY BROTHER MAY HAVE HAD, EVEN IF HE HAD JUST GOTTEN MAD AT HER FOR WHAT EVER REASON, BUT HE'D CALL THE NEXT DAY ASKING HER FOR SOMETHING OR TO DO SOMETHING FOR HIM AND YOU COULD BET YOU'RE BOTTOM DOLLAR SHE WAS GOING TO ANSWER HIS CALL AND TAKE CARE OF WHATEVER NEED HE HAD THAT WOULD BE NONE OTHER THEN BIG SISTER PAMELA JO BRANNON SMITH-HATHORN ( EDDIE ) THAT'S JUST HOW MUCH PAMELA JO LOVED HER BABY BROTHER WHO SHE CALLED ( TRAMP ) KERMIT.

KERMIT COMPLETED HIS FORMAL EDUCATION IN PHOENIX AZ, AFTER KERMIT COMPLETED HIGH SCHOOL HE MET AND MARRIED HIS SWEETHEART SAMIA WILSON BRANNON.

KERMIT THEN ENLISTED IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY IN 1978 AFTER SERVING IN THE MILITARY TO THIS UNION WAS BORN TWO SON'S KERMIT JR, SHARYOR AND A STEP DAUGHTER YASHICA, LATER ON IN LIFE KERMIT SR. HAD A SON NAME KERRICK (KC).

KERMIT LOVED SPORT'S, SINGING, DANCING, PLAYING POOL, COOKING, AND MOST OF ALL HE LOVED TO JUST CUT UP AND HAVE FUN WITH HIS MANY FAMILY AND FRIENDS...

LATER ON IN LIFE KERMIT RELOCATED BACK TO PHOENIX AZ, A CITY THAT HE LOVED TO LIVE IN.

KERMIT LATER ON JOINED SOUTH PHOENIX MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH WHERE HE PROUDLY SERVED AS A ASSOCIATE PASTOR UNDER PASTOR DR.BERNARD BLACK FOR THE LAST ELEVEN YR'S OF HIS LIFE WHERE KERMIT WAS ORDAINED AS A MINISTER IN THE LAST PART OF HIS LIFE BEFORE KERMIT WAS CALLED ON TO GLORY...SO I CAN HERE MY BABY BROTHER SAYING NOW IF YOU GO TO MISSING ME DON'T CRY OR WORRY, JUST COME ON UP TO GLORY AND I'LL TELL YOU A STORY ABOUT HOW I GOT OVER ( KERMIT ).

KERMIT HAD A HOST OF NIECES AND NEPHEWS COUSINS THAT TRULY ADORED THEIR UNCLE KERMIT, HE HAD  EXTRA SPECIAL NEPHEWS ( MAURICE, KYANTE SMITH AND DARRELL NAFF ) AND A SPECIAL NIECE.   ( MISSY ) TYWANA ELLIS-RECCE., FOUR GRANDCHILDREN.

AND A HOST OF FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

KERMIT LEE BRANNON WILL BE DEARLY MISSED BY ALL WHO LOVED AND KNEW HIM..

FUNERAL SERVICES WILL BE HELD AT 1:00 P.M., FRIDAY,JULY 3, 2020 AT MOUNT OLIVE BAPTIST CHURCH, CUSHING, OKLAHOMA.  INTERMENT TO FOLLOW AT SILVER STAR CEMETERY, CUSHING, OKLAHOMA.

ARRANGEMENTS ARE ENTRUSTED TO PALMER MARLER FUNERAL HOME, CUSHING, OK.