Verneita Braun

Funeral Information

Services will be held on Thursday at 1 pm. at the Kaufman Funeral Home in Bad Axe. Officiating will be Rev. David Clardie of Bad Axe and Janet Rapson of Sacred Heart (St. Hubert). Burial will be in Colfax Cemetery. Friends may call at the Kaufman Funeral Home on Wednesday from 10 am. until 8 pm. or on Thursday from 10 am until the service time at 1 pm. Memorials may be offered to the First Presbyterian Church of Bad Axe or the Make-A-Wish Foundation. To offer your condolences to the family, go to www.kaufmanfuneralhome.com

Family of the Deceased

Surviving Neita besides her son Jim of Bad Axe, are a sister Lois Jean Rowlett of Royal Oak, a sister Grace Jean Krohn and her husband Warren of Elkton, granddaughter Stephanie and husband Tim Guigar and sons of Bad Axe, Pat and Judy Gottschalk and family of Bad Axe, Darla Ijames and family of Davison, Kathy Carriveau of Bad Axe, Donna Davis of Port Hope, two sons and a daughter of Elkton, four other grandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren, one brother of Caseville, many nieces and nephews. Preceding Neita in death were her parents, Edward L. and Anna M. Taylor, her parents-in-law Albert W. Braun and Laura E. Braun (Edighoffer), a sister, Mildred (Taylor) Azarovitz and her husband William, Brother –in-law Carl Rowlett, a sister Betty (Taylor) Wolfe and her husband William, and a sister-in-law Lorriane Taylor.

Biography

Verneita “Neita” Braun, 89, 0f Bad Axe, formerly of Elkton, passed away Sunday, November 29, 2015 at Courtney Manor, Bad Axe, after a short illness. Neita was born November 27, 1926 in Hume Township. She was the daughter of the late Edward L. and Anna M. (Cox) Taylor, granddaughter of the late Buron and Alta (Schad) Cox, Colf and William and Emaline (Hagle) Taylor. On March 16, 1946, Neita was united in marriage to Albert “Bert” Braun Jr. at the Chandler Presbyterian Church by the Reverend Marshall W. Simpson. Bert preceded her in death on January 2, 2001. Neita lived and farmed with her husband Bert of fifty-four years on the same farm Bert’s father and grandfather had farmed before them. In Chandler Township, which became a Centennial Farm in 1970. Neita worked alongside her husband milking cows, driving tractor in the field and doing other numerous farm jobs, beside keeping up a home, raising four children and later helping raise five grandchildren (which were the joy of her life). The past thirteen years Neita has resided in Bad Axe with her son Jim. There she became acquainted with many new and wonderful friends whom she cherished very much and who brought many hours of joy and happiness to what could have been days of lonely hours.

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