Obit for George Browning - Kingfisher County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Barbara Clayton OklahomaClaytons@aol.com Return to Kingfisher County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/kingfisher/kingfisher.html ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== Source: THE KINGFISHER FREE PRESS, Monday, November 8, 1943. Geo. BROWNING Dies; Funeral Wednesday. George A. BROWNING, pioneer resident of Kingfisher, died at 6:30 o'clock Sunday evening at his home, 324 North Eighth street. He was 77 years old. Mr. BROWNING had been feeling poorly for a week, but had not been confined to bed much of that time, and his death came unexpectedly of cerebral hemorrhage. Funeral service will be held at 3 o'clock Wednesday afternoon at the Christian church, with Rev. G.O. BELL officiating. Interment will be made in Kingfisher cemetery, BRACKEN funeral home in charge. Mr. BROWNING took a claim near Okeene when that area was opened to settlement. Later he moved to Kingfisher, and for many years was employed by Ed HOCKADAY and Company. Since 1915 he had operated his own tin shop. He is survived by his wife; a daughter, Elizabeth; a son, Lieutenant Commander C.L. BROWNING of Great Lakes naval training station near Chicago; and other relatives.