ANNISTON - Memorial services for Mr. Joseph B. Broadnax, age 83, of Anniston will be 3 p.m. today at The 1st United Methodist Church of Anniston with the Rev. Bobby Green and Woodfin Grove officiating. The family will receive friends one hour after at the church. Gray Brown Service Mortuary and Crematory is in charge. Mr. Broadnax died Friday, September 9, 2005 in Anniston. 

Survivors include his wife Marjorie Broadnax of Anniston; a sister Ann Broadnax Roberts and husband, Robert, of Birmingham; one niece and one nephew. Mr. Broadnax was a native of Anniston and a 1942 graduate of Anniston High School. He served in the United States Army during World War II and later attended Auburn University where he was a member of the Kappa Alpha Order. He was in the retail drug business in Anniston and Gadsden for many years and was the former owner of Broadnax and Scarbrough Drug stores. Mr. Broadnax was a Real estate Broker associated with Harwell Realty Company for 20 years and retired as Vice President of the company. He served on the Board of Directors of several businesses and professional associations and the Alabama Association of Realtors. He was a Past President of the Anniston Board of Realtors. Mr. Broadnax had been a member of the Anniston Rotary Club, Country Club and First United Methodist Church.

In lieu of flowers the family request memorials be made to the 1st United Methodist Church or Favorite charity.

(The Anniston Star, Anniston, AL, 11 Sep 2005 - courtesy of Tedd Cocker)

Grave marker of Joseph Benjamin Broadnax, in the Edgemont Cemetery, Anniston (Calhoun County), Alabama.