Albert S. Brown Funeral Monday
Albert S. Brown, 83, of Pottsboro,
an early Grayson County teacher,
died at a Sherman nursing home early Saturday after a three-week
illness.
Funeral services will be held at the First Baptist
Church here Monday
at 2:30 p.m. with Dr. Henry Garber, pastor, and Rev. David Baker, First
Christian Church minister, officiating.
Burial will be in West Hill Cemetery at Sherman with
Johnson-Moore
in charge. The family will be at the funeral home tonight from 7 until
8 o'clock.
Pallbearers will be Edwin, Freddie, Albert and Cory
Brown, Gary
and Jerry Wilson, Eddie Thompson, and Rickey Grimes.
Brown was born in the Celtic community near Sherman
April 27, 1888
and married Miss Sallie Cowherd at Pottsboro Dec. 31, 1910.
He attended school at Pottsboro, Quitaque, Silverton,
Southeastern
State College in Durant and Kidd Key College in Sherman.
His 53-year school career included tenure as
superintendent of Gunter.
He taught at Pottsboro, Whiterock, Skaggs, Howe and Hagerman before he
went to Willow Springs where he retired.
He was juvenile officer for Grayson County for nine
years after
his retirement and then continued as a farmer and rancher.
Brown was past master and secretary of the George R.
Reeves Masonic
Lodge No. 396 at Pottsboro. He received his 50-year pin in
1963.
For a time Brown was a bookkeeper for a gin company. He
also was
a member of the Woodmen of the World Pottsboro Lodge No. 426, serving
as
secretary, and the First Christian Church.
Survivors are his wife; two sons, Albert W. of Denison,
Jack C.
of Sherman; four daughters, Mrs. Geneva Thomas, Denison, Mrs. Juanita
Wilson,
Dallas, Mrs. Dorothy Grimes, Oak Grove Community, and Mrs. Mary
Thompson,
Denison; and 16 grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
The Denison Press
Friday, February 24, 1950
pg. 6
Funeral
services were held Friday afternoon at the First Baptist Church for
Charles Ray Brown, 23, who died in a Sherman hospital Wednesday night
after nine days of illness. The Rev. W.B. Billingsley was the
officiating minister and Bratcher-Moore in charge of arrangements.
Mr.
Brown was the vocational agriculture teacher of Denison high school, a
position held since the beginning of this school year. He was
born in
Pottsboro,
the son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert S. Brown. His wife is the former
Miss Marjory Nelle Bridgefarmer and they lived at 1411-1/2 Morton.
He was a member of the Kiwanis club and the Junior Chamber of
Commerce.