Edithann was a faithful member of many Churches of Christ throughout the city starting at the Central COC Vine Street downtown as a child and teenager, then after marriage the Red Bank COC, Hamill Road COC, which became Hixson COC, which became Clearcreek COC, and attending Signal Mountain COC. She was faithful to God and our Savior Christ her entire life. She taught Sunday school for many years as an adult and as a teenager sang in the Chattanooga Church of Christ A Cappella Chorus. She says to have a good life one must, live a good Christian life, to put God and others first, to obey the Gospel, be loyal to your friends.
She attended Chattanooga High School graduating in 1951. While in high school she worked at T. H. Payne office supplies, sang in the Glee Club for High School, and played piano. If this was not enough, she was also a girl scout and collected postcards and would always ask for people to mail them to her.
She attended David Lipscomb College in Nashville, Tennessee where she majored in business from September 1951 to May 1953. She always was glad to let everyone know that she attended college with Pat Boone and The Jordanaires. After college she worked in the claims department for Travelers Insurance for ten years. After leaving Travelers she was a housewife until she returned to work for Dr. J. Edward McKinney at Currey Clinic Hospital then moved with him to his private practice filing health insurance claims. Next, she worked at Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee as a claim's examiner in quality control from December of 1979 until retiring in January 1994. She met her to be husband while going to a singing for an A Cappella Chorus practice at the Central Church of Christ December 1950 followed by the first date March 2, 1951.
He proposed to her in 1955. She was married to her husband Dennis Roy Broadrick on April 8, 1956, and was blessed with 58 years of marriage together. Her statement is this, “Dennis was a good husband whom she loved very much and still does.”
Edithann and Dennis’s favorite things to do were going to Florida and the ocean, or a trip to Gatlinburg, going fishing and camping. One of her best memories was taking a one-day cruise ship out of Daytona Beach Florida. She said the way to a long and healthy marriage was to, “always love each other and treat each other as you would want to be treated.”
She never met a stranger and always had a smile on her face asking if someone needed anything. She welcomed people into her home that had no place to go or live. She truly tried to live a life serving others with her eyes set on GOD. She enjoyed knitting baby booties to give to expecting mothers or make Afghans to give to people to keep them warm.
She did not have any siblings but was very close with her cousins Arch Trimble Jr. and Joe Myers. In her last years she greatly enjoyed watching church programs on TV because she could no longer go to church, playing games on her tablet, doing word searches, watching Tennessee Volunteers sports mainly football, and The Pittsburgh Steelers and Tennessee Titans. She never missed an episode of Gun Smoke.
Preceded in death by her father Charles H. Werndli when she was 25 years, after her mother Edith Reed Werndli, husband Dennis Roy Broadrick.
She is survived by Denise Broadrick daughter, and Charles Broadrick son, both of Chattanooga; Casey Lapp granddaughter of Chattanooga, and Claire Christopher; great granddaughter, Archer Lapp great grandson and Wesley Pickett grandson, of Chattanooga Emmy great granddaughter; and many cousins.
The family will receive friends from 5 to 8 pm on Thursday, April 23, and 10 to 11 am on Friday, April 24, at the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home.
Services for Edithann will follow at 11 am on Friday at the North Chapel. Burial will follow in Chattanooga Memorial Park.
Memorial contributions may be made to Martin Boyd Christian Home, 6845 Standifer Gap Road, Chattanooga, TN 37421 or www.martinboydhome.com or to Hearth Hospice, 811 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37404 or www.hearthhospice.com
Please share your thoughts and memories at www.chattanooganorthchapel.com
The arrangements are by the North Chapel of Chattanooga Funeral Home, Crematory and Florist, 5401 Highway 153, Hixson, TN 37343.
