“His Brother, Howard Branham”
William Branham claimed that his brother, Howard Branham, was completely healed of rheumatic fever in a sermon he preached on February 27, 1950, as follows,
“My brother, brother in flesh, he's just back out of the Navy, spent four years in the World War II and was laid up to be a perfect total disable the rest of his life, never to move from a chair. Setting out, and from New York there on one of the Long Island Hospital, one of the best doctors in the United States Navy had said, 'You're finished for life. You'll lay there. You can't never get away from there.' Three valves of his heart was closed with rheumatic fever. He was shell shocked from: went into Casablanca and two-thirds of the convoy was tore up. And he was laying there screaming at the top of his voice, when he couldn't scream, and crying for mother and me. And mother had to sign a release to get him—get them to send him home. And she would be responsible if he died on the road home. And when he got home, he said, 'All I want to see is my brother to pass by me.' Here he is: perfect health.” “God In His People” (50-0227).
Evidently, the damage the Rheumatic fever caused to Howard Branham's heart had never
been healed since he died from “Rheumatic heart disease and failure” and “pneumonitis” seven years later on November 7, 1957 when he was 34 years old (as his death certificate below indicates).
Howard's death certificate also indicates that the “interval between onset” of the Rheumatic heart disease “and death” was five years, meaning he had Rheumatic heart disease at least five years prior in 1952.
Because William Branham declared that his brother was completely healed in 1950, but the death certificate reflects Howard had the disease at least five years before his death in 1957,
he most likely never was healed of it despite William Branham's claim above.
Based on the very definition of Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) below, it is further evident that Howard Branham most likely was never healed or cured of the damage that was caused by the “three valves of his heart” being “closed with rheumatic fever” as William Branham claimed.
“Rheumatic heart disease (RHD) is damage to one or more heart valves that remains after an episode of acuterheumatic fever (ARF) is resolved.”[1]
Footnote:
[1] https://www.rhdaustralia.org.au/what-rheumatic-heart-disease
Death Certificate of Howard Duffy Branham:
Grave site marker of Howard Duffy Branham in Jeffersonville, Indiana reflecting that he was in the U.S. Navy and World War II as William Branham stated above:
