Obit of Brown, Kyle Floyd - Delaware County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Gene Phillips 10 Sep 2006 Return to Delaware County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/delaware/delaware.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== ::Kansas Cemetery--Kansas OK The Grove Sun Daily KYLE FLOYD BROWN 1921-2005 Kyle Floyd Brown, 84, of Colcord, Oklahoma, passed away Tuesday, March 29 at the Northwest Medical Center in Springdale, Arkansas. Brown was born February 17, 1921 in Hunter, Kansas, a on of Floyd Acton Brown and Alida Petit Brown. He married the late Evelyn Brown, on May 26, 1947 in Siloam Springs, Arkansas; she preceded him in death in 2001. Brown graduated Magna Cum Laude in 1947 from John Brown University with a bachelor's degree in Dairy Science. He served in the Army Air Corps during World War II as a navigational instructor for pilots. After the war, he taught with the Veterans on the Farm training program, teaching veterans how to farm. He then began his own dairy farm near Colcord. He served on the Board of Directors for the Farmer's Co-Op in Siloam Springs, the board for the American Milk Producers, and on the council of American Soil Conservation through the Delaware County Extension Office. He was a member of the First Baptist Church of Kansas, Oklahoma, where he was a deacon and taught the Adult Men's Sunday School class for fifty years. He was preceded in death by his wife, Evelyn Brown; two sons, Acton and Cecil Brown; and one grandson, Thomas Brown. Survivors include two daughters, Talitha Lourie of Springdale, Arkansas, and Treva Malone of Muskogee, Oklahoma; two brothers, Dale Brown of Siloam Springs, Arkansas, and Orla Brown of McKinney, Texas; seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. Visitation will be held at the Backstrom-Pyeatte Funeral Home Chapel from 2-8 p.m. on Friday, April 1. Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, April 2 at the First Baptist Church in Kansas, Oklahoma, with Rev. Jack Jones and Rev. John Crawley officiating. Burial will be conducted at the Kansas Cemetery under the direction of the Backstrom-Pyeatte Funeral Home of Siloam Springs. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Delaware County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/delaware/delaware.html