Annie E. Scales Broadnax, 96, of Eden, NC died May 23, 2021. A public viewing will be held from 1:00 p.m.7:00 p.m. Thursday, May 27, 2021 at Perry- Spencer Funeral Home, Eden, NC. The family will have a private burial.
Annie Earlene Broadnax was born December 8, 1924 to Porter Washington Scales and Edna Agnes Strickland Scales. She was predeceased by her husband, William McKinley Broadnax as well as her youngest son, Fred Eugene Broadnax. She grew up in Ridgeway Virginia. She attended Ridgeway Virginia Elementary school then Henry County Training School for one year of High School in Martinsville, Virginia. She obtained a C.N.A. Certificate of Training in later years which she was very proud of because she was the only person in the class who had not completed high school. She worked in the Douglass School Cafeteria for 3 years. She was employed at Spray Cotton Mill in Eden for 27 years. She took a few years off to help her sister Inez now deceased to care for her mother before returning to work. Afterwards she worked for the Rockingham County Council on Aging for 18 years. She retired to then become the caregiver for her husband until he passed.
She leaves to mourn one brother, Henry Scales and his wife Mary of Martinsville, VA, one sister-in-law, Dorothy Broadnax, three children, Barbara B. Clarkson of Columbia, S.C, Howard Broadnax and his wife Jackie of Landover, MD and Hazel Broadnax of Washington, DC. Grandchildren Derrick Broadnax, Stephanie Jones, Michael Broadnax, Olokun Salamu, William N. Martin, Robert Alston*, Lisa Brown, Tony Broadnax*, H. Brandon Broadnax, Cory L. Broadnax, Melanie Clarkson and Marcus Clarkson. She had 8 Great Grandchildren and 3 Great- Great Grandchildren. She loved all of the in-laws of her children and grandchildren with a special fondness for Marty’s wife Mo who would get up at 6am in the morning with her. She also was fond of her special niece Clara Cathleen Blackstock who became her caregiver. She had many nieces, nephews and cousins that she was close to on both sides of her family.
We truly loved the Matriarch of our family with all of her quips, advice and fondness for us that she had. She will never be forgotten in our minds or hearts.
