Howard Franklin Bradnax

September 23, 1937 - November 17, 2021

LIFE STORY HOWARD FRANKLIN BROADNAX WAS BORN ON SEPTEMBER 23, 1937 IN REIDSVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA. HE WAS A 1955 GRADUATE OF BOOKER T. WASHINGTON HIGH SCHOOL IN REIDSVILLE, N.C. WHILE SERVING IN THE U.S. AIR FORCE AND STATIONED IN JAPAN, HE MET AND MARRIED THE LOVE OF HIS LIFE KIMIE HOSHI. HOWARD RECEIVED JESUS AS HIS LORD AND SAVIOR IN 1951 AND PROCEEDED TO GET HIS BACHELOR OF ARTS IN RELIGIOUS EDUCATION FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SEMINARY IN PLYMOUTH, FLORIDA. HF, AS HE WAS FONDLY KNOWN WAS FERVENT IN SPIRIT AND ALWAYS VERY ZEALOUS FOR THE THINGS OF GOD, ESPECIALLY HIS DEVOUT PRAYER LIFE. HE ALWAYS HAD A WORD IN SEASON FOR ANYONE THAT ASKED HIM FOR THE REASON FOR THE HOPE HE HAD IN GOD. HOWARD'S 60 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN LIFE INCLUDED SERVING AS YOUTH LEADER, EVANGELIST, PASTOR, PRISON MINISTRY LEADER, AND MENS MINISTRY JUST TO NAME A FEW OF THE MANY OFFICES AND FUNCTIONS HE PERFORMED IN AND OUT OF THE CHURCH. BRO. BROADNAX WAS TRULY A PEOPLE PERSON WHO NEVER MET A STRANGER, A DEDICATED FRIEND TO SO MANY. HOWARD WAS A LOVING HUSBAND, SON, GRANDSON, AND UNCLE, AND TO ALL HIS COUSINS HE WAS THEIR BROTHER. HOWARD WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS LOVING WIFE KIMIE, HIS MOTHER AND FATHER, BOTH GRANDPARENTS. HE LEAVES BEHIND TO MOURN A HOST OF COUSINS, NIECES, NEPHEWS, GOD CHILDREN AND MANY FRIENDS. I HAVE FOUGHT A GOOD FIGHT, I HAVE FINISHED MY COURSE, I HAVE KEPT THE FAITH: HENCEFORTH, THERE IS LAID UP FOR ME, A CROWN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS, WHICH THE LORD, THE RIGHTEOUS JUDGE, SHALL GIVE ME AT THAT DAY: AND NOT ME ONLY, BUT UNTO ALL THEM ALSO THAT LOVE HIS APPEARING. (II TIMOTHY 4:7-8)