Labette County KS Archives Obituaries.....Brown, Charity February 24, 1947
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Parsons Sun, February 25, 1947
Charity Brown
Charity Brown, possibly the best known colored citizen in Parsons, died at 7 
o'clock last night at her home, 1003 S. 13th street. She was 91 years old.
 
Charity had been in feeble health for some time and had been in a critical 
condition for the past two months.
 
Funeral services will be held at the Hamilton chapel on South 12th street at 
2:30 o'clock Thursday afternoon, conducted by the Rev. G.H. Rowe of 
Independence. Burial will be in Oakwood cemetery.
 
Charity Brown is survived by two daughters, Pearl Coker, of the home, and Mrs. 
Florence McMillan, Kansas City, and one son, Dennis Brown, Oswego. Also 
surviving are 10 grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. Charity was born 
in Grimes county, Texas where she grew to womanhood, and was married to 
Clarence Brown at Navasota, Tex. She came north in a covered wagon with an 
exodus of colored people in 1880 and located at Oswego, where she resided 
until the family moved to Parsons in 1906.
 
She took an unusual interest in community affairs and was an enthusiastic 
worker among the colored people for the Red Cross and for years had been the 
first subscribed in raising the annual financial budget.
 
Arrangements are in charge of the Martin Funeral home. 

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