Obit of Browne Jr., John Spencer (b650) - Grady County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Sandi Carter 17 May 2004 Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== JOHN S. BROWNE, JR. Funeral services for John Spencer Browne, Jr., 94, of Reno, NV., formerly of Chickasha, Okla., are pending with McRay Funeral Home. John Spencer Browne, Jr. was born in 1910, and died on Saturday, April 24, 2004. ========== The Chickasha Express-Star 30 April 2004 JOHN S. BROWNE Memorial service for John Spencer Browne, Jr., age 94, of Reno, Nevada, will be held at 9:00 a.m. on Saturday, May 1, 2004, in the Rose Hill Cemetery. John Spencer Browne was born in Chickasha, Oklahoma, in 1910, the namesake of John Spencer Browne, Sr., a Chickasha businessman, farmer/rancher, and early Oklahoma pioneer, having made the run into the Cherokee Strip in 1889. He died on Saturday, April 24, 2004, at St. Mary's Hospital, Reno, Nevada, after a brief illness. John Spencer Brown, Jr., grew up on a 1,500-acre cattle, alfalfa, and cotton farm near Chickasha, married Geneva Smith, a local girl, in 1935, and began raising cotton on land acquired from his father. After the birth of two daughters and a fair amount of frustration and uncertainty with Dust Bowl farming, he sold his land and equipment back to his father and took his young family to Southern California in 1938. After working odd jobs in farming around Southern California, John went to work for Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, as a machinist in 1941, building airplanes for the war effort. His third daughter was also born that year. He was president of his union local, a member of the Linda Vista Civic Council, a member of the San Diego County Democratic Committee, and funancial secretary of the local Southern Baptist Church. John relocated his family and work to the Los Angeles area in 1952, moving to the first of three locations in the Whittier area, where he remained active in the Whittier Hills Baptist Church. John and his wife, Geneva, relocated to Reno, Nevada, in 2003 to be near two of their daughters, and Geneva passed away in the fall of 2003. Survivors include his sister, Mabel Rhodes of Ft. Worth, Texas; daughter, Janice Browne of Reno, Nevada; daughter, Barbara Goodrich of Sparks, Nevada; daughter, Marilyn Shoberg of Austin, Texas; eight grandchildren; 11 great grandchildren. Service will be under the direction of the McRay Funeral Home. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Grady County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/grady/grady.html