Rogers Co. Obit for: 
************************************************************************
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/rogers/rogers.htm
Rogers County Archivist: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
Submitted to the Rogers County Oklahoma Archives 
Date: 2/01/2003 by: Bill Cook, billcook44@aol.com
************************************************************************
USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE:  These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in 
any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons.  
Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the 
written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the 
submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this 
consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to 
store the file permanently for free access.

http://www.usgwarchives.net
************************************************************************
1/30/2003

Jim Brown

Services for Jim Brown will be 1 p.m. Friday, Jan. 31, 2003 at Gospel Assembly 
of God Church in Sperry. Rev. Tommy Igler will officiate. Burial follows at 
Adair Cemetery in Adair under the direction of Rice Funeral Service.

Jim passed away at his home Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2003, with his family by his side. 
He was 86. 

Born Oct. 15, 1916 in Locust Grove, he was the son of Henry Alexander and 
Abby Icy Waters Brown. Jim was reared and educated in his birth community. 
After graduating from high school in Locust Grove, he continued to make this 
community home.

Jim began his career as an iron worker and one of his first jobs was the Grand 
River Dam project. He also contributed to the construction of the Tulsa Expo 
Center, Williams Center, the BOk Building and St. Francis Hospital during his 
long and successful career.

On April 16, 1946, Jim married Verna Jewel Brown in a ceremony at Columbus, Kan. 

The couple made their first home in Adair and later moved to Oregon before coming 
back to Oklahoma. For the last 35 years, they have lived in the Catoosa area.

When Jim found time away from work, he enjoyed hunting and fishing, playing 
dominoes and being with his friends and family.

Survivors are his wife, Verna, of the home in Catoosa, children, Fay Clow and 
husband Ronny of Choctaw, Smoky Brown and wife Sylvia of Claremore, Les and wife 
Barbra of Catoosa, Sharon Kyles and husband David of Tulsa, Daniel Brown and wife 
Vickie of Catoosa, Miriam Brown of Spencer, Gloria Arneecher and husband Clifford 
of Catoosa, Glenda Trett and husband Donald of Claremore and MaDawna Brown-White 
and husband Timothy of Catoosa; 16 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, sisters, 
Pauline Tarpening of Springfield, Ore., and Cynthia Forrest of Visalia, Calif.

Jim was preceded in death by his parents and brothers, Arvin and Clay Brown.

*************************************************************************
Transcribed from the Claremore Progess Newspaper, we sincerely thank them
for allowing us to post these obits on the Rogers Co., OK USGenwebpages
http://www.claremoreprogress.com/
copyright c 2002-2003, by webmaster Rogers Co. Arhchives Bill Cook
billcook44@aol.com
*************************************************************************