Fulton Daily Leader - 15 January 2004


   Randall Powell Brown, a resident of Van Ayer Manor Nursing Home 
in Martin, formerly of Union City, died on Jan. 3 at Volunteer 
Community Hospital in Martin. He was 71. 
Services were on Jan. 8 at White-Ranson Funeral Home in Union 
City, with the Rev. Mike Davis officiating. Burial was in Oak Grove 
Cemetery near Dukedom. 

   Survivors include his wife, Doris Brown; six daughters, Vicki Carr 
of Martin, Nancy Malmstadt, Normandy Stinnett and Debbie 
Jones, all of Colorado Springs, Colo., Ramona Owens of 
Wilmington, N.C., and BeJaye Ezell of Union City; two sons, 
Michael Brown and Eddie Brown, both of Martin; and 17 
grandchildren and 14 great-grandchildren. 

   He was preceded in death by his parents, Jim B. and Bonnie 
Brown; a son, Bobby Brown, and a daughter, Kathy Owens Posey. 
Born on Aug. 22, 1932, in Weakley County, he was a retired 
employee of Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in Union City, 
where he worked for 24 years. 

   He was a member of Union City Church of God and the United 
Steelworkers Union Local 878.