Obituaries:  Dr. John Daniel Brown, Sabine Parish       B-650
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 5, 1981
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Dr. John Daniel Brown

  Services for Dr. John Daniel Brown, 80, of Ventura, Calif., were
held at the First Baptist Church in Florien, at 2 p.m., on
Wednesday, Feb. 4, with the Rev. Wheeler, the Rev. Bill Foil, and
the Rev. J. L. Pollard officiating. Interment was in the Florien
Cemetery, under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral Home of
Many.

  Dr. Brown died at the Ventura Community Memorial Hospital on
Saturday, Jan. 31, at 11 a.m.

  Dr. Brown, born in Alabama, August 29, 1900, entered the
ministry in 1933, as pastor of a Baptist Church in Birmingham,
Ala. He served as pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church in Baton
Rouge, where he and his wife were married; pastor of South San
Antonio Baptist Church in San Antonio, Tx., and pastor of First
Baptist Church in Beverly Hills, Ca., until he retired in 1965.

  He was very active in Southern Baptist denominational work, and
was on Radio Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention in
Baptism one year, and was very active in evangelistic work, and
helping to organize missions.

  He is survived by his widow, Mrs. Nell Addison Brown of Ventura,
Calif.; one son, J. D. Brown, Jr.; and one daughter, Gera
Comfort, both of Birmingham, Ala.; three sisters, Elizabeth
Rassmussen, Houston, Tx., Edna Gordon, Escatawpa, Miss., and Mary
Culpepper of Keewanee, Miss., eight grandchildren, and three
great grandchildren.