Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....BROWN, George Leighton February 2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/mi/mifiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: LaVonne Bennett lib@dogsbark.comMarch 17, 2006, 8:52 am THE SEBEWA RECOLLECTOR Bulletin of the Sebewa Center Association, Volume 39 February 2004 Number 4; submitted with permission of Editor Grayden D. Slowins George Leighton Brown, 82, husband of Gaylia (Brown) Brown, brother of Bernadine Stalter, son of Walter & Mary (Snyder) Brown, son of Fred E. Brown, son of James H. Brown, son of John & Sarah (Sally)(Ingalls) Brown, who settled at SE 1/4 Sec. 24 Sebewa Township on Keefer Hwy. in 1838. Mary Snyder was the granddaughter of Dr. George Washington Snyder, Civil War Veteran. Gaylia is the granddaughter of Stacy Brown, son of Delia (Stacy) & Irving A. Brown, son of Melissa (Showerman) & Eleazer Brown, who settled on 160 acres at NW Sec. 26 & NE Sec. 27 Sebewa Township, on Musgrove Hwy. at Sunfield Rd. in 1839. George served in the Civilian Conservation Corps in the late 1930s and in the U.S. Marines in the South Pacific in World War II. He was a barber in Lake Odessa and Ionia, then retired from the Michigan Department of Corrections. He was a life member of Sheridan VFW and they were longtime active members of Ionia Historical Society, as well as Sebewa Center Association. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/mi/ionia/obits/b/brown850gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/mifiles/ File size: 1.7 Kb