Obit of Michael Carllee Brown (b650) - Roger Mills County, Oklahoma Submitted by: Wanda Purcell 10 Jan 2001 Return to Roger Mills Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html ==================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE All documents placed in the USGenWeb Archives remain the property of the contributors, who retain publication rights in accordance with US Copyright Laws and Regulations. In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, these documents may be used by anyone for their personal research. They may be used by non-commercial entities so long as all notices and submitter information is included. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit. Any other use, including copying files to other sites, requires permission from the contributors PRIOR to uploading to the other sites. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Surnames: Brown, Wells, Tweed, Blackmann, Blakley Michael Carllee Brown was born April 8, 1951 in Cheyenne, Oklahoma to Mary June and Wilburn Leon Brown and died Thursday, June 23, 1944 in the Methodist Medical Ceneter of Dallas, Texas at the age of 43. Michael graduated from Borger High School in Borger, Texas with academic honors in 1969. He continued his education further at Oral Roberts University receiving a Business Administration Degree and a Masters Degree in International Business from Thunderbird Graduate School in Phoenix, Arizona. Ensign Michael Brown served in the United States Navy for eight years. He completed Naval Officer Candiadate School in Newport, Rhode Island and Naval Supply corps School in Athens, Georgia in 1978. Ensing Brown's first naval commission after graduation from Naval Supply Corps was aboard the U.S.S. Stribling. During Michael's stint in the Navy, he served two years at the naval base in Diego Garcia and three years in Honolulu, Hawaii where he received further training at Pearl Harbor Naval Supply Center and the Marine Corps Air Station at Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. Michael was an interpreter in the Ministry of the Deaf at Calvary Baptist Church, Borger, Texas during his high school and college years. He had been employed by Southwestern Bell Telephone of Dallas, Texas for the past twelve years. Thoughtout his lifetime, Michael was actively involved in music ministry wherever he was located. His secular music always brought laughter, a smile, or and upbeat feeling to those who heard him. Some of the secular activities he did in his lifetime were participating in high school musicals, one of his favorite being "Oklahoma", singing with native Hawaiians in a choral group in Honolulu, Hawaii and enteretaing at various talent exhibitions. Michael also had a Christian music ministry and was always active in the churches wherever he was located. He shared his gift of muisc with all those he came in contact and those who heard his Christian gospel music alwasy felt they had been touched by the Holy Spirit as Michael sang. He sang at funerals, weddings, church services, as well as performed with a variety of musical groups with the last two being "High Praise" and " Soaring Spriit". Those who preceded Michael in death were his mother Mary June, his maternal grandparents, Robert Lee and Flora Mae Cole, and his paternal grandfather, Carl R. Brown. Survivors include Michael's father, Leon Brown of Durham, Oklahoma; his grandmother, Vauda Brown of Roll, Oklahoma; Ms Blanche of Dallas, Texas; 2 sisters and brothers in law, Patsy and Dr. Jere' Wells of Erie, Kansas, Debbie and Richard Tweed of Borger, Texas; John Blackmann, a close friend of the family; 2 nieces, Michele and her husband Dale McCurdy of Medicine Lodge, Kansas, and Mandy Blakley of Erie, Kansas; 1 uncle, D.L. Brown of Amarillo, Texas; and a host of other relatives and friends. Services were at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, June 28, 1994 in the Crawford Magnolia Baptist Church with A.L. Martin officiating assited by Kenneth Gamble. The music that will be used throughout the service will be a selection of favorites sung and recorded by Michael C. Brown. Interment will follow in the Silent Home Cemetery, Roll, Roger Mills County, Oklahoma under the direction of Rose Chapel Funeral Service, Cheyenne. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Roger Mills Archives http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogermills/rogermills.html