Dawson County NeArchives Obituaries.....Brown, Leroy Aaron March 26, 2009 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ne/nefiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Danny Gruber danny.gruber@yahoo.com July 8, 2010, 4:50 pm Lexington Clipper-Herald April 4, 2009 Leroy Aaron Brown, 45, of Lakeland, Fla., died Thursday, March 26, 2009, at Lakeland Regional Medical Center in Lakeland. Funeral services were held Thursday, April 2, 2009, at Reynolds-Love Funeral Chapel in Lexington with the Rev.Todd Karges officiating. Burial was at the Evergreen Cemetery at Lexington. Visitation was held Wednesday, April 1, 2009, at the Reynolds-Love Chapel in Lexington. Survivors include his wife,Maria Brown of Lakeland, Fla.; his mother, Phyllis Hendrix of Council Bluffs, Iowa; his children, Justin, Kayla and Courtney, all of Lakeland, Fla.; two brothers, Tony (Cindy) Brown of Norfolk, Andy (Cheryl) Brown of Sydney, Australia; two sisters, Melody (Billy Ray) Prothro of Shrevesport, La., Ellerine Rodriguez of Council Bluffs, Iowa; eight nieces and nephews, aunts, uncles and many, many friends. Leroy was preceded in death by his father, stepfather, both sets of grandparents and one aunt. He was born May 26, 1963, at Torrington, Wyo., to Richard A. and Phyllis A. (Seachord) Brown. Leroy was the youngest of five children blessed to this union. He moved with his family to Lexington when he was 11 months of age. He grew up in Lexington and graduated from Lexington High School with the class of 1981. While in school Leroy participated in both cub scouts and boy scouts and the summer baseball programs. He was also the student manager for several sports during middle school and high school. He attended Wayne State College in Wayne for a time and returned to Lexington where he worked at Godfather’s Pizza, Dan’s Sanitation, Karre City Bakery and several other jobs prior to moving to Florida. Leroy moved to Lakeland, Fla., in 1998, where he attended Florida Metropolitan University for two years, graduating with honors as a medical assistant. He has worked the past six years at Watson Clinic in Lakeland in the Urology Department. While working at the clinic he met his future bride, Maria, and the couple were later married Dec. 23, 2006, in Council Bluffs, Iowa at the home of his mother. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/ne/dawson/obits/b/brown216gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/nefiles/ File size: 2.7 Kb