Curtis E. Braud

East Palestine, OH-April 2, 2005-Curtis E. Braud, Jr., age 38, of 5064 State Route 170 Lot 22 died at 1:50 a.m. Saturday in UPMC Shadyside Hospital, Pittsburgh.

Mr. Braud was born March 30, 1967 in Etlin, Florida, a son of the late Curtis E. and Roberta Peterson Braud and had lived here since 1999 coming from Slidell, Louisiana.

He was a truck driver for Warner Enterprise, Omaha, Nebraska and had attended Centenary United Methodist Church in East Palestine.

He is survived by his wife, the former Violet Yoho, whom he married June 1, 2001; and a brother Bobby Walker of Texas.

Funeral services will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 8, 2005 at the Van Dyke-Swaney Funeral Home, East Palestine with Reverend Ron Spore of the church officiating. Burial will be in Shultz Cemetery, Jacksonburg, West Virginia. Friends may call from 2-4 and 7-9 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.