Clay County GaArchives Obituaries.....BROWN, LEWIS PAULIN PART 1 May 9, 1941 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: REBECCA STEWART rstewart@enervest.net December 13, 2011, 8:19 pm SOUTHWEST GEORGIAN, FT. GAINES, MAY 15, 1941 MR. LEWIS PAULIN BROWN PASSES MR. LEWIS PAULLIN BROWN WAS BORN IN FT GAINES MAY 16 1876. HE WAS THE SON OF THE LATE mR. AND mRS. J.P.H. BROWN OF THIS CITY. ON DEC 31 1901 HE MARRIED MISS MARY LIGHTFOOT, DAUGHTER OF THE LATE MR. AND MRS. W.E. LIGHTFOOT. THE PARENTS OF THE CONTRACTING PARTIES WERE PIONEER CITIZENS OF FORT GAINES. HE IS SURVIVED BY HIS WIFE AND SON, LAWRENCE BROWN, WHO CAME INTO HIS LIFE SIXTEEN YEARS AGO; FOUR SISTERS, MRS. W.J. BLACKSHEAR OF PANAMA CITY FLORIDA, MRS. T.J. MORRIS OF BAINBRIDGE GEORGIA, MRS. ANNIE JENKINS OF OCALA FLORIDA AND CARNEGIE GEORGIA, MRS. W.E. HOWELL OF DELEON, TEXAS AND SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS AMONG WHOM ARE FOLLOWING: R.H. MORRIS OF FT. GAINES, JOE BLACKSHEAR, PANAMA CITY, J.P. RUSSEL, WILLIAM AND HARRY HOWELL, DELEON, TEXAS; MRS R.G. HAMMOCK, CARNEGIE, MRS. T.M. TURNER, OCALA FLORIDA, MRS. HELEN TRULOCK, CLIMAX, GEORGIA. MR. BROWN HAS BEEN A CONSISTENT MEMBER OF THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH HERE SINCE EARLY BOYHOOD. DURING THE MANY YEARS OF HIS MEMBERSHIP HE HAS MISSED ONLY A VERY FEW SUNDAY MORNING SERVICES AND WAS A REGULAR ATTENDANT AT SUNDAY SCHOOL. HE WILL BE SADLY MISSED AT ALL THE SERVICED OF HIS CHURCH. HE HAD A VERY DEFINITE PLACE TO FILL BECAUSE OF HIS REGULARITY AND INTEREST. THE FUNERAL SERVICES WSERE HELD AT THE CHURCH SUNDAY AT 3 PM WITH RUFUS HIGGIN BOTHAM AND W.B. CHESHIRE OFFICIATING. THE BEAUTIFUL FLORAL OFFERINGS AND THE ATTENDANCE OF THE MANY LOCAL AND OUT OF TOWN PEOPLE ATTESTED THE ESTEEM IN WHICH HE WAS HELD. THE PALLBEARERS WERE GRADY GRIMSLEY, LEWIS PAULLIN, W.G. WHIDDON, SAM T CRAPPS, JB GRIMSLEY, AND CLAUDE HARRISON. AMONG THE OUT OF TOWN GUESTS WERE MRS. GEO C BROWN OF PANAMA CITY, DR. AND MRS. W.J. BLACKSHEAR OF PANAMA CITY, MRS T.J. MORRRIS OF BAINBRIDGE, MRS. HELEN TRULOCK OF CLIMAX, GA, MR. AND MRS. R.G. HAMMOCK OF CARNEGIE. PURD BROWN HAMMOCK OF ALBANY, MRS. A.L. HARMON AND MRS D.E. FRAIER OF DOTHAN, MRS. E.P. ORT, MRS. E.P. ORT, JR. MRS GEORGE ORT, MRS. HENRY ORT, AND ALEX WHATLEY OF ALBANY, GEORGIA, MRS. LUTHER DUKE OF ALBANY, CONTINUED ON PART 2 File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ga/clay/obits/b/brown10344gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/gafiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb