Obituaries:  The Rev. Ralph Brown, Sabine, Vernon Parish       B-650
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Apr 1, 1998
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net 


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The Rev. Ralph Brown

  The Rev. Ralph Brown, 49, of Lake Charles died at 2:30 a.m.
Saturday, March 28 at a Lake Charles hospital.

  Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, March at Trinity
Baptist Church. The Rev. Steve James, pastor, officiated. Graveside
services were held at 3 p.m. at Prewitt's Chapel Cemetery in Hornbeck.
The Rev. Huey Haymond officiated.

  The Rev. Brown was a native of Hornbeck and had lived in Lake
Charles for the past four years. He was a graduate of Hornbeck High
School and received his Bachelors Degree from Louisiana College and
his masters degree from Southwest Theological Seminary in Ft. Worth,
Texas.

  The Rev. Brown had served as Minister of Youth at Calvary Baptist
Church in Alexandria and had served at First Baptist Church in Edmond,
Okla., as well as Southside Baptist Church in Palestine, Texas. He had
served as Minister of Education at Trinity Baptist Church since
January of 1994.

  He also served in the U. S. Navy "Seabees" during the Vietnam
Conflict.

  Survivors include his widow, Myra Lee Allen Brown of Lake Charles;
one son, Keith Brown of Houston, Texas; one daughter, Karen Brown of
Lake Charles; two sisters, Glenda McInnis and Sue Dowden, both of
Hornbeck; and his mother, Lera M. Ellzey Brown of Hornbeck.

  Memorial donations may be made to the Trinity Baptist Church
Building Fund or the American Cancer Society, Hope Lodge Cleveland,
Ohio.

  Johnson Funeral Home Lake Charles, La.