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[This is Judd Wilson Brown.]


The Teague Chronicle - Feb 18, 2010 issue

JUDD W. BROWN

Funeral services for Mr. Judd W. Brown, 92, will be held on Saturday, February
13, 2010, at Bowers Funeral Home in Teague. Bro. Kenneth Henbest will officiate.

Judd was born to Frank T. and Bertha Goad Brown in Cherokee County on February 
18, 1917, and grew up there as well as in Leon and Freestone Counties. He served
in the U.S. Army during World War II, stationed in California. Mr. Brown 
returned to Texas after his military service and married Callie McAdams on June 
26, 1945, and made their home in Teague. He worked as a truck driver hauling 
fresh produced and firewood for some time before beginning his career selling 
janitorial supplies for a company in Tyler and then for C&B Chemical Co. in 
Houston. In 1960, Mr. Brown founded his own company, Bro-Co Brown Chemical 
Company in Teague. He operated it until 1983 when he sold the business to Bob 
Talley of Mexia. As a Teague business owner, he was active in numerous civic 
organizations including the Teague Industrial Foundation, a past president of 
the Teague Chamber of Commerce, and a past president of the Teague Rotary Club. 
He loved farm and ranch work and raised cattle for over fifty years. His 
favorite past times were playing forty-two with his family and watching Tom 
Landry’s Dallas Cowboys. He was a lifelong member of the Church of Christ and
presently a member of the Freestone Church of Christ. Mr. Brown passed away on
Thursday, February 11, 2010, at Hillcrest Baptist Medical Center in Waco.

Mr. Brown was preceded in death by his parents, his brothers Joel Brown and 
Manley Brown; and his sister Alice Lively.

He is survived by his wife of over sixty-four years, Callie McAdams Brown of
Teague; his daughters Linda Buchanan and husband Ed of Elgin and Joy Bowers
and husband Bill David of Teague; his grandson Brian David Bowers and wife 
Julie of Teague; his granddaughters Amy Buchanan of Elgin, Christina Bowers 
Mims and husband Ritchie of Teague and Julie Buchanan of Austin; his great 
grandchildren Allyson Bowers, Austin Mims, Bo David Bowers, Brendan Cole Mims 
and Blake David Bowers; his brothers Howard Brown of Corsicana and Marvin Brown 
and wife Ruth of Teague; his sisters Bessie McCaig of Teague and Mona Lee Cole 
of Cleveland; his sister-in-law Peggy Brown of Teague; numerous nieces, 
nephews, great nieces, great nephews, cousins and friends.

At the family’s request memorials can be made to The Children’s Home of Lubbock,
P.O. Box 2824, Lubbock, TX 79408.

Bowers Funeral Home of Teague is in charge of the family.